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Should state break NIMBY logjam thwarting halfway house expansions?

By Gritsforbreakfast

Should the state require local communities to designate areas where halfway houses would be allowed, make communities that reject halfway houses pay for individual placements, or build halfway houses on existing government property?Those options and more were floated at the Senate Criminal Justice Committee yesterday during testimony by Marc Levin of the Texas Pulbic Policy Foundation. (I'll have more to say about the rest of the hearing soon.) The Statesman's Mike Ward has an account today of the committee's discussion and the problems siting halfway houses, writing that ("Halfway house solution: Build them at prisons," April 3):committee members expressed shock that two-thirds of the new halfway house beds they funded last year ? 200 of the 300 beds ? will be in El Paso because there were no alternative sites...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 03, 2008 (boomark / email).