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A juvenile offender that has been found guilty of committing a delinquent act or crime.
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A juvenile offender that has committed a juvenile alcohol or other petty offense per statute shall be adjudicated a petty offender and not adjudicated delinquent.
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An evaluation that is ordered by the Court for offenses related to drug or alcohol use. These assessments will be completed by a licensed drug and alcohol counselor and recommendations regarding treatment needs for the individual will be made.
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An additional term of supervision placed on individuals being released from prison for certain sex offenses as well as Felony Driving Under the Influence offenses. Conditional Release terms can be anywhere from 5 years to lifetime.
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A judge may place a juvenile offender on probation under a continuance for dismissal. If the juvenile successfully completes the probation conditions imposed by the court. The sentence or conviction for the juvenile will be dismissed.
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Community Work Service. Volunteer work within the community at a non-profit organization such as a church, school, or other entity. Service hours are monitored by a supervisor at the site and may be used to offset fines or limit jail time for individuals.
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Domestic Abuse No Contact Order. No contact order placed on an individual by the Courts in domestic abuse cases.
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Minnesota’s three-part delivery system for the supervision of offenders on parole, probation, and supervised release includes services provided by the DOC as well as Community Corrections Act (CCA) and County Probation Officer (CPO) jurisdictions. Each of these systems utilizes supervision agents responsible for guiding and monitoring offenders in their compliance with conditions and providing information and recommendations to allow sentencing authorities to make appropriate decisions.
The DOC provides felony probation and supervised release services in counties that are not part of the CCA. The DOC also provides juvenile, adult misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor services in select counties. In addition, the DOC provides intensive supervised release (ISR) services directly through ISR supervisors or by contract with CCA jurisdictions.
The second delivery method allows any Minnesota county or group of contiguous counties with a population exceeding 30,000 to elect to enter the CCA. In these areas, the county or jurisdiction provides all correctional services.
In the third delivery system, CPOs are appointed by the district court in the county where they work. CPOs supervise all juveniles and most adult misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor offenders.
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An evaluation that is ordered by the Court to be completed on all domestic related offenses per Minnesota Statute. Recommendations may be made from that assessment for programming that would benefit the individual.
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Electronic Alcohol Monitoring; Individuals will be placed on alcohol monitoring and will be expected to test several times a day to ensure sobriety.
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Electronic Home Monitoring. Individuals may be placed on a bracelet at home in lieu of jail time. Individuals will develop a schedule with their agent as to when they are allowed to leave their home during their monitoring period.
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Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction. A juvenile offender may be given a stayed adult sentence and placed on juvenile probation until their 21st birthday. If they violate their juvenile sentence, the court may impose the adult sentence and send the individual to adult prison.
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Approaches and programming that have shown through research to provide positive outcomes for those we serve.
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Global Positioning System. Individuals may be placed on this type of monitoring in order to track their whereabouts. An agent can use exclusion zone to prohibit an individual from going to a place that may be off limits, such as a victim’s home or place of employment.
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Intensive Supervised Release; Individuals being released from a prison facility with a risk assessment of very high and meeting certain other criteria will be placed on ISR. Supervision will take place under ISR agents and occur within the individual’s home. Supervision standards are increased, and individuals will be seen frequently due to their high risk.
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Pre-dispositional report. This report is similar to a pre-sentence investigation however, it is completed on juvenile offenders.
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Individuals sentenced to probation by the courts are placed on probation supervision under conditions placed on them by the sentencing court. A probation officer is assigned the case to work with the individual to support the individual in making changes and holding them accountable when it is needed.
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Pre-sentence Investigation. A judge may order that a pre-sentence investigation be completed by probation before an individual is sentence. The agent will cover numerous areas of an individual’s life during this interview. A report is then completed with all of the gathered information and recommendations are made by the agent for sentencing to the Court.
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Restructures can be completed on individuals that are under Supervised Release or Conditional release. Restructures are often completed for individuals that have committed technical violations. Certain conditions may be added for an individual to follow through with in lieu of being returned to the prison setting.
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A chemical use assessment completed for individuals that do not have insurance coverage or are found to be indigent.
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Sanctions Conferencing is voluntary for a probationer and may occur when an individual has violated a technical term of supervision. Agents can impose additional conditions on an individual if they admit a violation has occurred and they are willing to follow through with additional conditions such as chemical use assessment, electronic home monitoring or increased supervision to name a few. These will be signed with agreement from the agent and individual and a copy will be sent to the court for approval. These types of violations can occur without returning to court.
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A sentence given by the Judge in which the conviction is withheld or stayed. Conditions of probation are placed upon the individual and if the individual has no violations of their probation, once discharged, the conviction will not go on the individuals record.
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At sentencing the Judge will order the maximum sentence allowed under law. With felony offenders that would be sentencing the individual to a prison sentence. That sentence would be stayed with conditions placed on the individual. If the individual violates probation, that individual could be ordered to serve their prison sentence. If the individual successfully completes probation, this offense will stay on the individuals record as a felony.
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A sentence is given by the Judge with conditions of probation, typically on felony offenses. If the individual successfully completes probation, this conviction will be deemed a Misdemeanor.
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Sentence to Services; STS is a sentencing alternative for courts that puts nonviolent offenders to work on community improvement projects. Supervised STS crews work in parks and other public areas, frequently in combination with jail time. The Minnesota Department of Corrections, courts, and local governments operate STS. City, county, township, school districts, state, and nonprofit entities may submit project proposals. Submitted proposals should outline anticipated community improvement projects.
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Individuals will be placed on supervised release for one third of their sentence time after their release from prison. These individuals will be supervised by agents within the community according to their risk level upon release from the institution.
