Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program
The Department of Community Supervision and Intervention (DCSI) is a department of the Sheriff’s Office created in December of 1992 to plan, manage and administer all programs (except Boot Camp) for inmates outside the Department of Corrections (DOC).
Its mission is twofold: to reduce jail overcrowding while assisting participants to break free of the cycle of criminality.
DCSI carries out this mandate through four major divisions: the DAY REPORTING CENTER, ELECTRONIC MONITORING, PRE-RELEASE CENTER, and the SHERIFF’S WORK ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM (SWAP).
At the end of 1997, DCSI’s daily client base was close to 2,000, more than one-fifth the size of the DOC population.
The Department draws its population from the DOC and from the court system. Each of DCSI’s Divisions is unique in its operations, but together they form a cooperative and mutually supportive team that offers a sliding scale of corrections alternatives from community service to incarceration.
DCSI is headquartered at the South Campus, a former city hospital complex just south of the DOC at 3026 South California. Much of DCSI’s operations are carried out at this location, although both EM and SWAP are essentially countywide in scope.
DCSI maintains its own Fugitive Unit to locate and reincarcerate AWOLs from its programs as well as its own training, internal affairs and administrative functions.
DCSI personnel, for the most part, began their law enforcement careers with either the Department of Corrections or Court Services, although DCSI has its own star (six-point with Dept. of CSI in the center) and ID card.
David Devane – Acting Executive Director
Thomas Tansey – Deputy Exective Director
3026 South California Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60608
Voice: 773.869.7959 Fax: 773.869.3344
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