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TX: Gritis for Breakfast Blog: TYC commitments to grow dramatically despite declining juvie crime

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

TYC commitments to grow dramatically despite declining juvie crime September 15, 2008 Grits for Breakfast Blog Having analyzed on Saturday the Legislative Budget Board's incarceration projections for the adult prison system, let's take a look at LBB's projections regarding youth crime and incarceration in their five year population estimate (pdf) which is used to set agency budgets. Regular readers know that in 2007 the Legislature took steps aimed at reducing inmate populations at the Texas Youth Commission, including shifting 19-20 year olds to TDCJ and refusing to take misdemeanants at state youth prisons. The population drop can be seen most dramatically in the number of releases. TYC released 4,375 inmates during fiscal year 2007, up from 3,554 in fy 2006...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).