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4 Feb 2011, 9:24 am
Check out the Texas Public Policy Foundation's "Legislators’ Guide to the Issues" on Criminal Justice:Corrections Budget & Prison Operations Adult Probation Empowering & Restoring Crime Victims Juvenile Justice Overcriminalization School Discipline & Delinquency Prevention Parole & Reentry [read post]
'Six Impossible Things': Do you believe in a conservative, rational, and smaller corrections budget?
28 Jan 2011, 6:26 am
Today in Texas, state and county government directly supervises around one in 22 adults in prison, in jail, on probation or on parole. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:33 am
Think about that: Every kid sent to youth prison accounts for employment of two adults. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 5:48 am
Adult probation cuts detailed from just-filed House budget bll Texas corrections budget at second glanceCorrections budget cuts concentrated in community supervision, set TDCJ up to failSugar Land anxious to get rid of 'unwelcome neighbor'Justice solutions offered at TPPF orientationTexas budget shortfall dwarfs corrections budgets [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am
The reduction in probation funding would also eliminate staff positions in the local CSCDs. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm
How can parole be made more "efficient" while fewer cases are processed for release, parole officer caseloads grow, and funds for revocation hearings are slashed? [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 6:26 am
But from a policy and public-safety perspective, though, the need to reduce caseloads both for parole and probation officers borders on imperative.One out of every 22 Texas adults is in prison, in jail, on probation or on parole: There's no way the state can supervise nearly 5% of the population effectively through the criminal justice system, even in economic good times, much less when facing a $15 to $27 billion budget shortfall. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 1:01 pm
That's why I remain optimistic that the budget crunch can motivate legislators to scale back the state corrections system - which today oversees 1 in 22 Texas adults in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - in ways that sound arguments from policy wonks or reform advocates could otherwise never accomplish.RELATED: Let me know in the reader poll in the sidebar how many, if any, prisons you think the 82nd Texas Legislature will close as a result of the budget… [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 8:54 am
The minimum fine facing domestic violence offenders who receive probation increases from $200 to $400. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am
The ouster of House Corrections Chair Jim McReynolds was a loss for reform-minded folk, but most people think he'll be replaced by Jerry Madden, who is author of numerous recent, widely praised probation and parole reforms. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 8:49 am
Currently, more than 7 million people are either in prison, on probation or on parole in the United States, which amounts to 1 in 18 adult males, more than four times the per capita rate in England, eleven times in a country like Norway. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:42 am
Although comparatively small, decreases in the probation population (down by 40,079 offenders) and the parole [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 4:50 pm
More than 4 million adults were on probation at the end of 2009, while 819,000 were under parole supervision. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:31 am
What does it really matter if someone is pardoned who received a probated sentence 40 years ago? [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:24 am
Bureau of Justice Statistics Study presents data on the number of adults under some form of correctional supervision at the end of the year 2009. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:24 am
Bureau of Justice Statistics Study presents data on the number of adults under some form of correctional supervision at the end of the year 2009. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 9:00 pm
When you include probation and parole, there are 7.3 million people under the control of our criminal justice system, or 1 in every 31 adults. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 2:20 pm
There are 1,150 registered sex offenders in San Francisco on parole or probation. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 9:31 am
The suit alleges that a state juvenile sentencing law, which requires 14-year-olds charged with certain felonies to be tried as adults and if convicted, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 11:47 am
" about high corrections costs, and in response Jake Horowitz of the Pew Charitable Trusts emailed to point out a related sidebar in this 2008 policy brief (pdf) which reads as follows:The history of state-local corrections partnerships is often dated to California’s 1965 enactment of the Probation Subsidy Act, which provided counties up to $4,000 for each prison-eligible adult or juvenile offender who was supervised, sanctioned and serviced in the community. [read post]
