The Bond County Probation Department has several employees working a mixed caseload of adult and juvenile offenders. Department personnel are responsible for delivering services to over 400 adults and juveniles.
Department personnel routinely monitor activities of probationers who have been convicted and ordered to serve a sentence to probation. Sentences gererally range from 1 to 4 years, and routinely require the offender to meet educational requirements, employment, treatment, observe curfew, pay restitution, submit to drug testing, and perform community service.
In addition to monitoring probation sentences, department personnel are also responsible for overseeing offenders who are placed on court orders which require treatment or community service. In 1998, over 100 people actively participated in treatment programs in the area, which included: anger management, substance abuse, domestic violence, family mediation, and sex offenses.
In 1998, 88 people were ordered to complete 5,805 hours of community service. During the year over 2100 community service hours were completed at various government and non=profit organizations throughout the county.