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Arizona looking to Texas for prison crowding solutions

With their state facing a budget shortfall and overcrowded prisons, the Arizona Republic published an extended feature profiling Texas' probation reforms that's worth reading in full. Here's a notable excerpt:Legislators [in Texas] began exploring ways to house fewer criminals in state custody and put more in community-based treatment centers where they would be provided with more of the tools to successfully re-enter society. There were no changes to sentencing guidelines because, Madden said, changing punishment for crimes would do nothing to help the immediate population problem. "Sentencing guidelines won't help you next year," Madden said. "Without retroactivity on it, you're just looking in a forward manner. That bought me nothing in the short term...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).