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$162 million savings from probation, diversion cuts will cost more than twice that in extra incarceration costs

The Texas Tribune's Brandi Grissom has a piece in the New York Times today focused on the consequences of proposed cuts to diversion programs and reentry services for inmates leaving Texas prisons. Texas legislators, looking for ways to plug an estimated $15 billion to $27 billion budget hole, are considering proposals that would cut as much as $162 million from rehabilitation and treatment programs meant to help criminals avoid going back to prison. For instance, the $100 Danny Bell received when he was released ? the so-called ?gate money? handed to prisoners who have completed their sentence ? would be cut in half. Financing for Project Reintegration of Offenders, known as Project RIO, which helps released inmates find jobs, would be eliminated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 13, 2011 (boomark / email).