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Report: Prison Rehab Programs Are Working. Prison Population Has Stopped Expanding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report: Prison rehab programs working By Mike Ward | Thursday, February 19, 2009 Austin American Statesman Texas? prison population has stopped growing for the time being, thanks in part to a controversial changes in corrections policy two years ago that ballooned funding for rehabilitation programs, new statistics indicate. That means Texas will not have to consider building new prisons that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, at a time when the economic collapse is pinching the state budget, officials said today. ?We put 6,000 treatment beds on line in the past two years ? and this is the initial result: Just what we expected,? said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, who co-authored legislation mandating the greatly-expanded treatment programs in 2007...continue to full post

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