When distributing restitution funds, the department does not make payments to victims a priority, as required by law.
Collection and disbursement of offender funds is incompatible with the agency's mission and detracts from probation officers' ability to meet their primary mission of supervising offenders. These responsibilities should be either transferred to the Department of Revenue or privatized.
Increased departmental efforts to identify and apprehend persons who abscond from probation supervision have slightly reduced the number of absconders; however, over 43,000 offenders remain at large.
All probation officers who serve in courts now also maintain active caseloads. While vehicles have not been provided to probation officers, the Legislature has awarded funds to defray personal vehicle costs.

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Report 00-23
Department of Corrections Zero Tolerance Policy Increases Offender Scrutiny But Is Not Based on Risk to Public Safety
Report 07-13 February 2007
Several Deficiencies Hinder the Supervision of Offenders in the Community Corrections Program
Report 06-37 April 2006
Progress Report: Inmate Health Care Consolidation Progressing; Privatization Requires Agency Vigilance
Report 04-61 August 2004

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