Primary Department: County Administration
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Erica Lee Carter, County Administrator
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Type of Request: Transmittal
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Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): American Institutes for Research (AIR)
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Transmittal by the Office of County Administration of "Changes in Pretrial Outcomes Under Reform and Pandemic Conditions in Harris County, 2015-2024" evaluation of reentry outcomes in Harris County.
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Background and Discussion:
On September 13, 2022, Commissioners Court authorized evaluation consulting services as a subaward of the agreement with American Institutes for Research (AIR) under Job No. 210317 to evaluate reentry outcomes in Harris County.
Harris County's misdemeanor pretrial and jail systems experienced substantial changes over the past decade driven by legal reform, policy shifts, and external disruption. This report examines whether and when adverse outcomes occur following release. It also analyzes three outcomes central to County decision-making and reentry success: the time to a new arrest or failure to appear, the time to a new arrest alone, and the time to a return to jail.
The report identified the following:
* Risk of new arrests, failures to appear, and return to jail is highest immediately after release and declines as time passes.
* Release conditions and bond or release types are strongly associated with how quickly outcomes occur, suggesting that system decisions shape not just whether people retu...
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