How do they match: Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

  • Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.

  • Arrange for postrelease services, such as employment, housing, counseling, education, and social activities.
  • Develop and prepare packets containing information about social service agencies, assistance organizations, and programs that might be useful for inmates or offenders.
  • Inform offenders or inmates of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.
  • Recommend remedial action or initiate court action in response to noncompliance with terms of probation or parole.
  • Supervise people on community-based sentences, such as electronically monitored home detention, and provide field supervision of probationers by conducting curfew checks or visits to home, work, or school.

  • Develop working relationships with others to facilitate program activities.
  • Recommend legal actions.
  • Visit individuals in their homes to provide support or information.