The recidivism findings confirm earlier drug-court research, which found that those who graduate from the drug court program have significantly improved criminal justice outcomes compared to those who are terminated from the program and/or those who were otherwise imprisoned. Two years of recidivism data show that 59 percent of those who graduated from the drug court had been reconvicted of a new offense within 2 years; the first postgraduate offense occurred after an average of 379 days. Seventy-seven of those terminated from the program had been reconvicted within 2 years of their release from prison, with the average time to first offense being 139 days. Graduates committed an average of 0.61 offenses every 6 months after their graduation, an 80-percent decrease compared to the 12 months prior to their entry into the drug-court program. Those terminated from the program committed an average of 1.38 offenses every 6 months after being released from prison, 63 percent lower than their rate of offending in the 12 months prior to drug-court participation. Findings show that 70 percent of graduates committed a new offense while participating in the program. Most of these offenses involved failure to comply with one or more aspects of their drug-court order. In the 6 years since the drug court started, 1,361 offenders have been referred to the program, and 758 offenders have been accepted into the program. A total of 183 offenders have successfully completed the program; 402 have been terminated. More than half of all participants have absconded at least once while in the drug-court program. A total of 23,536 court appearances have been conducted. 27 figures, 28 tables, 19 references, and appended description of methodology