Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency: Difference between revisions

|OrganizationName=Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency

|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies

|Mission=To increase public safety, prevent crime, reduce recidivism, and support the fair administration of justice in the District of Columbia; to provide supervision and rehabilitative services to offenders.

|Employees=1200

|Budget=$240 million (FY 2023)

|Services=Offender Supervision; Reentry Services; Public Safety Initiatives

|HeadquartersAddress=633 Indiana Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004

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The '''Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency''' (CSOSA) was established under the [[National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997]] to oversee [[probation]]ers and [[parole]]es, and provide pretrial services in [[Washington, D.C.]]  The functions were previously handled by the [[Superior Court of the District of Columbia]] and the D.C. Pretrial Services Agency.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.csosa.gov/Olipa/pubs/supervising_criminal_offenders_feb2006.pdf |title=Supervising Criminal Offenders in Washington, D.C. |author=Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |work=Corrections Today |date=February 2006 |pages=46–49 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916004142/http://csosa.gov/Olipa/pubs/supervising_criminal_offenders_feb2006.pdf |archivedate=September 16, 2008 }}</ref>  For the first three years, CSOSA operated under trustee John "Jay" Carver, and officially became a Federal agency in August 2000.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2000/August/457dag.htm |title=New Federal Agency for D.C. Debuts |date=2000-08-05 |publisher=United States Department of Justice |accessdate=2008-12-07}}</ref>