Court system
The judicial process and systems
- Specialty court participants often must wait months to enroll (Created: 2026)
- Completion rates vary greatly across different specialty court programs (Created: 2026)
- How "diversionary" are specialty courts when failure rates are so high? (Created: 2026)
- Specialty courts are a late-stage diversion (Created: 2026)
- The number of specialty courts is growing steadily (bar chart) (Created: 2026)
- The number of specialty courts is growing steadily (line chart) (Created: 2026)
- Arrests for "failure to appear" drive unnecessary jail detention: The path from arrest to pretrial release — and back again (Created: 2026)
- Over 1 million jail bookings per year involve missed court dates (Created: 2026)
- Explaining the changes in prison and jail populations in 2022: Criminal courts are catching up with backlogs from the pandemic (Created: 2023)
- Only a handful of states have eliminated or severely limited the use of commercial bail bonds (Created: 2022)
- What significant changes did pretrial reform have in Harris County? (Created: 2022)
- The number of active "pending" cases in state criminal courts has grown exponentially since the early pandemic (Created: 2022)
- Slowdowns in state courts contributed to the drop in incarceration from 2019 to 2020 (Created: 2022)
- What pandemic-related changes caused prison and jail populations to drop in 2020? (Created: 2022)
- The Prison Litigation Reform Act meant an end to active court oversight of prisons and jails (Created: 2021)
- The Prison Litigation Reform Act slammed the courthouse door (Created: 2021)
- Rise of the “prosecutor politician” (Created: 2017)
- The path from arrest to pretrial detention (Created: 2016)
