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19 June 2021
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Different parts of the justice system face different challenges as COVID-19 has had different impacts across geographies.
In general courts stand out as facing immediate surges in demand. Despite reduced police charges in most countries, backlogs from suspensions of trials, and jury trials in particular, have been soaring. Probation has also seen significant backlogs – this time in terms of carrying out community service sentences. Technologists in nearly every sector mention a created ''technical debt'', due to solutions not always being implemented in ways that aligned to overall technology strategies and architecture. In contrast, some areas of the justice system reported reduced pressures (for example, fallen prison demand).
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The future demands created by COVID-19
Despite widespread innovation, leaders we spoke with were still justifiably wary of the net impact of COVID-19. The word that most justice system professionals
will likely hear repeatedly in the coming months and years is backlog. Different parts of the justice system face rather different challenges as COVID-19 has had different impacts across geographies.
In general courts stand out as facing immediate surges in demand. Despite reduced police charges in most countries, backlogs from suspensions of trials, and jury trials in particular, have been soaring. This is partly because social distancing requirements have rendered certain facilities unsuitable and partly due to lack of availability of participants (for example, judges). Many expect these backlogs to take several years and a concerted effort to resolve.
Probation has also seen significant backlogs – this time in terms of carrying out community service sentences. Various types of reparation (for example, work in
the community) effectively ceased during COVID-19. Prisoner release programmes have also created immediate and acute pressures in some countries, though many interviewees felt that these were already beginning to subside.
A different type of backlog was mentioned by technologists in nearly every sector. Getting new technology solutions working at pace had, they reported, created “technical debt” due to solutions not always being implemented in ways that aligned to overall technology strategies and architectures.
In contrast, some areas of the justice system reported reduced pressures. Prison demand has fallen significantly. Trials have been put on hold, reducing
the flow of people into prisons, and efforts to reduce prison populations through policy changes have taken effect. Changes to offender supervision have also led to fewer so-called ‘technical’ parole violations – meaning fewer people are being sent back to prison for missing appointments. Parolees were, perhaps unsurprisingly, much less likely to miss virtual appointments than in person meetings that could be far away at inconvenient times.
