Average stay 204 days
Total jail capacity
Total jail population
Population experiencing homelessness 7%
Bond amounts 77% over $10,000
9,159
9,369
OUR DOCTORS Know Joint Pain The JAD plans to continue conduct- ing research and developing dash- boards this year. A use-of-force policy report is expected to be released in the rst quarter of 2022, Correa said, and a bail bond dashboard launched Feb. 23. “There’s a lot of talk about bond and bail reform, which from a there to break the cycle and move for- ward with their life,” Truong said. Implicationson individuals District Attorney’s Oce requested $13.6 million to fund 82 new assistant district attorneys and 43 support sta in 2022. REQUEST FOR PROSECUTORS The Harris County District Attorney is working to address a criminal court case backlog and is asking for more prosecutors. SOURCE: HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICECOMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER In January, the Harris County
As of Jan. 24, more than half of Harris County’s jail population was Black, and most individuals were accused of a violent crime. SOURCE: HARRIS COUNTY JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENTCOMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
WHO’S IN THE SYSTEM
2021 2006
0 500 1K 1.5K 2K 2.5K 3K
2,830
2,325
under 19 | 2.3% 19-25 | 20.7% 26-35 | 34.1% 36-45 | 24.9% Violent | 50% Serious | 11% Property | 10% Drug | 11% Other | 18%
46-55 | 11.4% 56-65 | 5.5% 66 and older | 1%
AGE
651
474
250 350
Black | 51% White | 31% Hispanic | 17% Other | 1%
Total prosecutors
Average felony caseload
Average misdemeanor caseload
RACE/ ETHNICITY
OFFENSES
system perspective is the most obvi- ous example of, ‘If you’re poor, you can’t get out.’ Being poor or rich is what’s driving justice over there,” Wiley said. Other ongoing areas of study deal with addressing inequalities in the system; supporting survivors of crime; and addressing the root causes of crime and criminal justice involvement such as mental health, homelessness, sub- stance use and poverty, Correa said.
Restoring Justice is one of the only indigent defense providers in the country also oering trauma-informed counseling, Wiley said, because he found trauma is often at the root of cli- ents’ circumstances. “The direct response to those ail- ments ... has been to throw someone in jail, and all that does is destabilizes, and it makes the problem worse,” he said. “You could take a fraction of those
dollars spent on the policing system, the jail system, the prison system and do the upfront mental health, home- less, substance addiction treatment … to prevent all of that wasted money.” Shawn Arrajj and Jishnu Nair contributed to this report.
For more information, visit communityimpact.com .
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