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Correction budget cuts concentrated in community supervision, set TDCJ up to fail

The Texas House budget was finally released last night (though I can't yet find it online), and initial MSM reports indicate Grits' concerns were justified that the Department of Criminal Justice would focus most of their cuts on probation and diversion programming instead of closing prison units. The Statesman summarized the criminal justice cuts thusly:In public safety and corrections programs, the budget report recommends shutting down a unit in Sugar Land, three Texas Youth Commission lockups and 2,000 private prison beds, a move that could close at least two additional lockups. About 1,562 prison jobs were also chopped.Probation programs would see funding cut by 20 percent, parole supervision would be cut by almost 9 percent, and the agency's construction and maintenance funding could be cut by 83 percent, along with 90 jobs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).