This podcast are comments from Brazos County district attorney Jarvis Parsons during the January 12, 2021 county commission meeting.

In October 2019, Brazos County commissioners approved district attorney Jarvis Parsons's request to start two pre-trial diversion programs for some who are arrested on drug charges.

During a recent update, Parsons told commissioners that 50 people have successfully completed and 57 are progressing through the first time drug offender program.

Parsons says none of the 107 have re-offended.

Parsons says 155 others arrested on low level drug felonies who did not qualify for the first time program have entered guilty pleas before they were indicted. Parsons says that kept 316 cases from going to trial.