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Backlash against new prisoner reentry housing

Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports on the allegedly muddled implementation and backlash against a new program to provide housing for long-time inmates who are eligible for parole but had no place to go ("Housing program for ex-cons not working as intended, some lawmakers say," Aug. 15). The story opens:As Texas prison programs go, this one was tiny. Just a few hundred ex-cons would be eligible for housing vouchers those who had been approved for parole but were stuck behind bars because they had no place to live, either because their families didn't want them or they had no place to go.It was also supposed to save taxpayers money, since the housing would cost less than a $47-a-day prison bed.Instead, state records show, the 8-month-old Temporary Housing Assistance Program appears to have accomplished just the opposite...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 15, 2010 (boomark / email).