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Pondering the economics of TYC abolition

Last week's Sunset report (pdf) recommending a merger between the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission is a detailed 120+ page document, so rather than write one long analysis, I'm going to pull out some highlights into shorter posts which hopefully will be a bit more reader friendly.The Sunset Commission's most important recommendation: Merging TYC and TJPC and transferring their functions to a new agency, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, headed by an 11-member board. (See MSM accounts here, here, here, here, and here for initial commentary on the idea.)However, after reading the financial analysis in more detail, I'm now convinced a merger cannot save the state money, as the Sunset report predicts. There are just too many questionable assumptions that will not bear out upon implementation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).