DC Public Safety Blog

Using social media (audio and video podcasts) during a media campaign to convince criminal offenders with warrants to surrender resulted in 530 offenders complying with the terms of the program in Washington, D.C.

[Read more →]

By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr., Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
Please see http://media.csosa.gov  for “DC Public Safety” radio and television programs
Please see www.csosa.gov for the web site for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency
Approximately 650,000 offenders are released from incarceration every year in the United States. Hundreds of thousands more are released from jails. According [...]

[Read more →]

By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
See http://media.csosa.gov for “DC Public Safety” radio and television shows.
See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
The name sounds like the essence of bureaucracy-the Transitional Intervention for Parole Supervision unit, or TIPS. The TIPS teams of Community Supervision Officers [...]

[Read more →]

“We Fix the Complexities of Life”
By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. and Beverly Hill. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
See http://media.csosa.gov for “DC Public Safety” radio and television shows.
See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
Walk down the streets of any major American city and you will likely encounter more [...]

[Read more →]

The CSOSA/Faith Community Partnership
By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis
See http://media.csosa.gov for “DC Public Safety” radio and television shows.
See www.csosa.gov for the web site of the  federal Court Services and Offender Services Agency.
“Religious organizations are long-standing and powerful community institutions. They often have histories with the families and the returning offender. That [...]

[Read more →]