Carbon County's court is a busy place.

On any given day, the judges can be found overseeing dozens of cases.In addition, the offices that make up the courts are busy filing paperwork, scheduling and handling everyday operations.In the county, the judicial system is composed of three active judges, a senior judge, four magisterial district judges, two senior magisterial district judges and 67 court employees.Together, these people operate the courthouse on a $4,452,494 annual budget.Over the past few years, the courts have continued to see a change in the clients coming through the courtroom doors.According to the State of The Carbon County Judiciary, filed by Roberta Brewster, court administrator, "Societal changes continue to place additional burdens on the judiciary."Changes such as a flat economy, changing family dynamics, and lower state and federal funding sources but increased mandates, have all contributed to the county looking at ways to help the community and reduce the number of repeat offenders.Below are some of the facts and figures of how the judiciary handled thousands of cases last year.The courtsIn 2014, the county judicial system handled 1,192 new criminal cases, 4.4 percent lower than 2013; and disposed of a total of 1,244 criminal cases.Of that number 377 were DUI cases, while 289 were drug-related cases, making up a combined 53.54 percent of the total criminal caseload.In addition, there were 7,400 statutory offenses by adults and 429 by juveniles; 333 adult ordinance offenses and two juvenile offenses; a total of 65 summary appeals and 541 hearings that went through the system. A total of 860 guilty pleas, five criminal jury trials and six bench trials were also heard."The report explains the workload and caseload regarding the judges and magisterial judges and the court systems in its entirety," Brewster said. "It points out that there is a lot of crime resulting from the drug and alcohol epidemic in Carbon County and the court is looking for ways to improve services and still maintain timely and fair access to judicial system."In addition, Brewster reported that the court has started using video conferencing of inmates, which resulted in an approximate savings of $97.60 per inmate per conference.The four district judges' offices are also not slowing down.Last year, a total of 15,245 traffic citations, 2,664 summary and nontraffic citations, 1,334 civil matters and 1,339 criminal cases went before these judges.In addition, they disposed of a total of 20,185 citations and cases; bound 157 over for court; and waived 1,014 into court.Their offices collected $2,858,595. Of that total, $426,581 remained in Carbon County, $216,375 went to municipalities and the remaining $1,756,666 went to the state.Adult and juvenile probationIn adult probation, Brewster reported that the number of cases handled by each officer continues to grow.Last year, the department supervised an average of 1,549 clients a month, which averages to 172 cases per officer. This number sometimes jumped to an average of 224 or more.In addition, actions to expand the intermediate punishment home electronic monitoring program realized a total savings of $181,120 by placing 22 clients in the program.On juvenile matters, delinquency filings jumped 12.9 percent to 140 cases, which averaged 82 clients supervised per month.Under the juvenile restitution program, three juveniles completed community service work and earned $506.50, which was paid to the victims of juvenile crimes.Like adult probation, 11 juveniles were placed on home electronic monitoring, which resulted in a net savings of $41,762.36 in costs.A look at 2015Brewster noted that the first quarter of 2015 is showing a slight decrease in criminal filings, from 332 to 321; but civil cases are showing a slight increase in the areas of abuse matters, custody and divorces, and larger increases in civil tort cases involving motor vehicle, premise and product liability; real estate matters and credit card cases.As the year continues, the court is currently exploring whether or not a central court would be beneficial to handling the increased caseloads; having assessments completed in-house by the adult probation office, and alternatives to incarceration for drug-related charges.