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Texas Criminal Justice By the Numbers

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Just a few bits of telling data about Texas' criminal justice system compiled from prior Grits posts:Proportion of Texas adults under control of the criminal justice system (in prison, jail, on probation or on parole): 1 in 21Increase in Texas' overall population 1978-2004: 67%Increase in Texas' prison population 1978-2004: 573%Number of felonies on the books in Texas: 2,324Number of Texas felonies involving oysters: 11Percentage of TDCJ inmates convicted of drug offenses: 19.6%Drug offenders as a percentage of total probation revocations: 37%Percentage of state jail inmates incarcerated for less than a gram drug offenses convicted in Harris County: 50%Percentage of Texas population in Harris County: 17%Percentage of TDCJ pharmacy budget spent on HIV drugs: 48%Percentage of Texas prison inmates who were clients of the indigent mental health system on the outside: 30%Percentage of TDCJ inmates eligible for parole 66%Texas prison staffing positions vacant: 3,040Number of TDCJ staff fired for disciplinary infractions in FY 2007: 538TDCJ prison guard pay ranked by state: 47thProposed TDCJ budget increase next biennium for the same prison population: 10...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).