United States Probation Officers are authorized to supervise persons conditionally released into the community under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 4243 (Hospitalization of a Person Not Found Guilty By Reason of Insanity) and 18 U.S.C. § 4246 (Hospitalization of a Person Found Guilty and Due for Release but Suffering from a Mental Disease or Defect). Unlike probation, supervised release, or parole, conditional release is a civil rather than criminal form of supervision.