“Employing Offenders” is part of the “DC Public Safety” television series.
Please see http://media.csosa.gov for our radio shows. See www.twitter.com/lensipes.
We welcome your comments and suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov.
“Hiring People on Community Supervision” provides an overview of the CSOSA initiatives and programs available working with local businesses in order to help provide employment to offenders. CSOSA supervises approximately 16,000 offenders at any given time; this program discusses the challenges offenders face when trying to find employment and informs local businesses about tax credits and other opportunities for providing employment to the offenders who are trying to find stability and become functional members of the community.
The program is offered by the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, a federal executive branch entity in Washington,
D.C.
The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. Timothy Barnes is the Producer.
Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2010/05/hiring-people-on-community-supervision/
Series Meta terms: Employment, Offenders, Parole, Probation, vocational, training, career, guidance, counseling.
