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House budget would spend $5 billion-plus on corrections without big prison guard raises

Here's LBB's big-picture summary (pdf) of criminal justice funding in the base budget coming out of the House Appropriations Committee to be debated on the floor this week:? $4.7 billion in All Funds is provided for the incarceration and treatment of adult offenders. This reflects an increase of $80.9 million in General Revenue Funds primarily caused by state approved salary increases in fiscal year 2009; increased funding for correctional security equipment and reentry transitional coordinators; multi-year contract rate increases; increased funding for initiatives provided by the Eightieth Legislature, 2007; vehicle replacements; healthcare equipment replacements; and increased costs for food, overtime, utilities, hazardous duty pay, and adjustments to the corrections officer career ladder in fiscal year 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).