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House Corrections Committee has much to discuss regarding probation/diversion programs

The Texas House Corrections Committee will meet March 17 at the capitol to discuss one of its interim charges:Charge 2: Study and evaluate the availability and efficiency of community-based corrections supervision and treatment programs and their impact on prison capacity and recidivism rates. Determine whether the supervision and treatment programs have been designed in accordance with evidence-based practices and whether adequate evaluation methods have been incorporated.Among topics I hope will be discussed:Why wasn't a new annual report on diversion programs published in December? The latest information publicly available (pdf) is pretty dated.The committee should question TDCJ's decision to focus possible budget cuts on diversion programming instead of selectively closing the most expensive and inefficient prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).