[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Judicial Correction Services to respond to a report raising concerns about abusive & discriminatory practices by private probation companies]. We at Judicial Correction Services, Inc. believe that private probation companies play an important role in allowing the court system and the local criminal justice community to implement cost-effective alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders at no cost to taxpayers...It is important to point out that private probation officers have no statutory authority to arrest any probationer under their supervision...Private probation companies provide well-trained, highly-regulated probation supervision. We collaborate with other professionals in the field of counseling, alcohol and drug intervention and cognitive rehabilitative therapy...private probation companies have collected substantial amounts of fines and court ordered restitution of which 100% of the collected fines and restitution are paid to the applicable court or other government body and used to fund critical government operations and provide restitution to victims of crime.