What officers actually spend their week on, what supervision failure costs, what pretrial detention costs a county, and what agencies measured when they moved supervision onto the phone. Every figure names its source. Updated September 2026.
This page exists so that anyone writing about community supervision, arguing a budget, or answering a question has numbers they can check. Two kinds of figures appear here. External research is named by publisher and year. Agency results are measurements reported by agencies using RePath; those agencies are described by type and state until each one clears the use of its name. Nothing on this page is a projection unless it says so.
How to cite this page: eHawk, Inc., State of Community Supervision, September 2026, ehawksolutions.com/state-of-community-supervision.
The problem exists before any vendor walks in. These are the measurements.
Only 18.7% went to direct supervision of people. A county corrections department ran the study on its own officers in December 2025, before it used RePath.
Same study. Case management data entry was the single largest block of the week.
The figure RePath customers report after moving check-ins, reminders, messaging and visit notes onto the phone. Measured from platform activity and agency time studies, multiple agencies.
A state department of corrections ran a roughly 1,000-person pilot across three regions with 13 officers and measured the time returned. The largest single sample we hold.
About eleven and a half full-time positions of capacity. The same agency saved more than 1,600 hours on case notes alone in a single year.
A state department of corrections measured 765 officer hours back in a 15-week pilot across three offices (560 enrolled), then scaled it to all 19 offices. They funded the statewide contract from vacant positions.
National research on what happens when supervision does not hold.
Council of State Governments Justice Center, Confined and Costly. This is the cost of violations, not the size of any market.
Technical violations alone, meaning missed appointments, failed tests and similar rule breaks, cost states about $2.8 billion a year. Same report.
The system cost of one person returning, 2023 figure. State-by-state values are on the CSG cost calculator.
A randomized trial in Santa Clara County found automated reminders cut missed-court warrants by about 20%. The ratio is the argument.
National total across police, courts and corrections. Supervision is the cheapest part of it and carries the most people.
Randomized trial. Reminders work on appointments the same way they work on court dates.
Measured by Missouri agencies using RePath as the non-monetary release condition.
About 150,000 jail days and $3.9 million. On any given day, about 400 fewer people held. The program grew from 67 people in January 2020 to more than 5,400 by 2026.
From an average of $4.66 million a year before RePath (FY17 to FY19) to $3.21 million with it (FY21 to FY26).
Reported by the county, 2019 to 2022.
Compared with counties that do. Missouri has more than 10,000 people on RePath across 22 judicial circuits, including four of the state's five largest counties.
After building its pretrial program around RePath when bond reform forced releases it had no money to supervise. 95% of the pretrial population is on RePath; the rest are in residential treatment without a phone.
Reported by the circuit. One administrator manages about 70 people at a time.
The cost comparison agencies make when they choose.
Incarceration runs $96 to $110 a day in the materials we use, against under a dollar a day for RePath. The real ratio is closer to 1 in 130; 1 in 100 is the conservative version.
Priced per officer, not per participant. The participant pays nothing.
The county's own replacement cost for a monitor. Reported by its chief probation officer, 2025.
Alongside about 965 officer hours returned, measured from platform activity.
"This is our only way to have a program. People can't afford ankle monitors." A program that exists because the phone costs the participant nothing.
Before and after, in the county's own words.
The research behind supervision quality, and the gap it points at.
Meta-analysis. The training investment agencies make is justified by the evidence.
Meta-analysis. Almost no agency measures whether the skills show up in practice.
The sample is small, late, and often chosen by the officer being reviewed. That is the gap RePath Intelligence was built to close.
Adoption and outcomes, reported by the agencies.
Voluntary adoption in the pilot was 70%. In the follow-up survey a year later, 83 to 100% of officers, depending on the district, said keep it.
Volume with almost no friction is the point. 37 of Missouri's 46 circuits and more than 130 agencies have put people on RePath.
January 2023 to July 2026. Successful closures rose from 86% to 92% over three years while closures to jail fell from 14% to 6%.
About 110 youth across six judicial districts. 14% of youth had their supervision level reduced because their compliance earned it. The best-performing site averaged 85% compliance against a 70% baseline.
An Indiana recovery court reports 96% of participants stayed compliant. A Tennessee recovery court saw self-check compliance rise 50%.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, signed reference forms. One of the five had lost RePath to a funding cut and come back.
Vacancy counts agencies have told us, which is where the money for supervision technology usually comes from.
The pilot math showed about 13 positions of capacity coming back, so the state removed vacant positions and used that salary line. No new appropriation. Their account of how they funded it.
Returned capacity absorbs the work vacancies were supposed to cover.
The scale behind every measurement on this page.
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