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This will go in your permanent file: Appropriations considers juvie corrections

This morning I attended a joint meeting of the TX House Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee and the House Corrections Committee, on the assumption that with a tight budget season in front of us, it'd be good to get a lay of the land on juvenile justice budgdets and in particular diversion and probation programming which were the main topic of discussion.  Here are a few highlights from my admittedly sketchy notes and a few accumulated documents:Better decisions by countiesDiversion programs were widely credited - along with a handful of key policy changes like removing 19-20 year-olds and disallowing commitment of misdemeanants - with dramatically reducing the inmate population at Texas youth prisons by more than 2/3 from their maximum just a few scant years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).