What is "community supervision" in Texas?   When a person is convicted of a crime in Texas, the person is typically sentenced to: county jail for a misdemeanor, prison for a felony, or "community supervision." A person on "community supervision" is on probation.  He or she is able to remain free from incarceration but must live under rules or "conditions" of supervision.  If he or she breaks a rule, the court can incarcerate. When a person is sentenced to "treatment" instead of prison, the person is on "community supervision" and must follow a treatment plan as a condition of probation. CSCDs  In Texas, adult probation departments are officially called “Community Supervision and Correction Departments” or “CSCDs”.  Many people still call this “probation”.   There are 120 CSCDs in Texas but they are not city or county departments.  CSCD employees work directly for Judicial Districts, the district judges in the area.   The same CSCD supervises all adults in their area, whether the person is a misdemeanant or a felon.   TDCJ-CJAD  The state department that funds CSCDs is a division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), called the Community Justice Assistance Division or CJAD.  Sometimes this is called “C-JAD”.   The JAC  There is a group of judges that advise CJAD, and they are the Judicial Advisory Council or the JAC.   Funding for adult probation in Texas comes 2/3 from the state general revenue fund as part of the TDCJ budget process.  A surprising 1/3 of the adult probation system is funded by probationers themselves through fees they pay.  Counties provide facilities and equipment for their CSCDs.