News & Insights
What we have learned from the agencies we work with, written for the people who run them. Every number traces to an agency that counted it.
Case studies
A large Missouri county cut pretrial jail days by more than 60% in its first year
150,000 jail days, $3.9 million in state reimbursement, recidivism down three years running.
Read the case study →A rural Missouri circuit took its 55-bed jail from 64 people to 33
Bond reform, no budget, and a pretrial program built around the phone.
Read the case study →A state corrections department paid for statewide supervision with positions it could not fill
765 hours measured in 15 weeks, about 24,000 a year projected, 86% of officers said go statewide.
Read the case study →Articles and points of view
The sixth system
The honest answer to “does it integrate”: the floor, the ceiling, and what one state did in between. By Zach Brown.
Read →The first 30 days: adoption and implementation
Five decisions made in the first month decide whether a supervision platform sticks. What they look like at the agencies where officers actually use it.
Read →Large-agency capacity economics without wishful math
A 40-officer department, a 150-officer agency and a 600-officer state system run through the same math, every assumption shown.
Read →Community supervision is entering an evidence-led era
Budgets, research and new data are moving the field from counting contacts to proving what works. What that asks of agency leaders.
Read →What agency leaders can’t see today
Quality review sees one file per officer per month. The early signs of a failing case sit in data nobody reads. What it looks like when that changes.
Read →How one state turned officer hours into 13 positions of capacity
A state with about 30 jobs it couldn't fill found 13 officers' worth of time and paid for statewide rollout without new money. Here's the math.
Read →What Visit Assist does, and what the officer still decides
Visit Assist records the visit and drafts the note. The officer edits it, approves it and decides what it means. Here's the line, item by item.
Read →The workload tax: where a probation officer's week actually goes
A county timed its own officers: 72.7% of the week on admin, 9.2 hours on data entry. The arithmetic, the ranges agencies measured, and what a director can do with the hours.
Read →Officers now get coaching after every visit, not a few files a quarter
RePath Intelligence evaluates every recorded visit. Officer Coach gives the officer feedback right after, and supervisors see where each officer needs to focus.
Read →Catching relapse before the failed test
A drug test only happens when an officer already has a reason. Impairment Risk flags likely impairment from normal use of the platform, and three in four high flags that get tested come back positive.
Read →How AI visit documentation gives officers their week back
Officers spend most of their week on paperwork. Visit Assist records the visit and writes the note, and the agencies that measured it counted the hours.
Read →Why more courts supervise from the phone instead of the ankle
Ankle monitors answer one question. The phone the person already carries answers the questions a supervision program is actually asking, at a cost the participant can afford: nothing.
Read →Five questions to ask before you choose supervision software
The questions that separate a tool that changes the agency from a tool the agency has to manage. Ask every vendor the same five, including us.
Read →The direct and indirect costs of pretrial incarceration
Most people in local jails have not been convicted of anything. What that costs taxpayers, what it costs the people held, and what courts are doing about it.
Read →AI in community supervision: what it should do, and what it should never decide
AI is already in probation and parole. The question is which jobs it should take from officers and which it should never touch. Our answer, and how we built to it.
Read →eHawk, Inc. selected for the global AWS GovTech Accelerator
eHawk was one of 13 companies selected for the inaugural AWS GovTech Accelerator, focused on justice and public safety.
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