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By the Numbers: LBB gives budget overview of TYC's difficulties

By Gritsforbreakfast

Here are some notes from the presentation to the House Appropriations Subcommitee on Crimional Justice by Angela Isaac, an LBB Analyst for TYC and juvenile probation. (She had a handout of which I'll try to get a copy.)TYC has a budget of $452.7 million for the biennium, she said, and $450.7 million of that comes straight from General Revenue. At the moment about TYC incarcerates 3,300 youths, she said, but Isaac's data tells me to expect that figure to decline even further.Assumptions underlying the agency's current budget anticipated substantial reductions in the inmate population through closures and reduced size of some facilities. Agency is appropriated for a total of 2,292 beds in institutions, 218 in halfway houses, 641 in private facilities, for a total of 3,151 youth...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).