The Office of the Public Defender provides legal representation for clients making application to the state's Intensive Supervision Programs (ISP) through the Administrative Office of the Courts. The ISP programs provide intermediate
forms of community-based correctional supervision, allowing select offenders to serve their sentences outside the traditional Department of Corrections settings.

Attorneys from the Office of the Public Defender also represent clients charged with violating the terms and conditions of their community-based supervision.

The most common form of community-based supervision involves Department of Corrections officers maintaining both telephone and personal contact with the offender. In some instances, the offender may be required to wear an electronic
monitoring device, but that is rare.

The program became part of the Office of the Public Defender on July 1, 1997. In Fiscal Year 1999, this program provided legal representation to 1,322 adults, an increase of 27.7 percent over Fiscal Year 1998.

E-mail: ISP_PD@opd.state.nj.us