Juvenile Intensive Supervision (JISP)

Juvenile Intensive Supervision Probation is similar to adult probation, although Intensive Supervision Officers are required to make more frequent face-to-face contacts, as well as more collateral contacts (such as parents, teachers, service providers, etc.). As with adult supervision, community corrections attempts to enhance public safety and ensure offender accountability through the use of community based supervision and control interventions.

Juvenile Intensive Supervision Probation (JISP) is a highly structured/supervised community-based program which works with juvenile offenders who have previously failed in traditional court service probation, or have committed a serious offense but do not yet need an out-of-home or juvenile correctional facility placement. The JISP philosophy is that selected offenders can be effectively managed in the community without presenting an increased risk to the public through the cost-effective use of community-based supervision and control interventions.

The Community Corrections Act authorized the development and implementation of correctional sanctions, programs, and services administered in the community rather than correctional facilities. The premise is that some juvenile offenders can be effectively supervised in the community without presenting an increased risk to the public. Community Corrections provides many services or referral to services that reduce the likelihood of offenders committing additional crimes.