Text message reminders can improve community supervision outcomes and reduce inefficiency  

Community supervision refers to several programs that allow criminal offenders to remain in their communities rather than being incarcerated, albeit under varying degrees of oversight by an officer assigned to their case. The two main forms of community supervision are probation and parole. Nearly 3.7 million adults are on community supervision programs like probation and parole–that’s nearly twice the number of people incarcerated in jail or prison.