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'Wasteful and Ineffective'

According to a memo forwarded me by his staff, State Sen. John Whitmire forwarded a New York Times editorial about the Empire State's dysfunctional juvenile corrections system titled "Two Words: Wasteful and Ineffective" to Members of the Texas Legislature and the board of the Texas Youth Commission with the following addenda:Please see the attached editorial from the New York Times. To put this in perspective:Where you see New York, put Texas.Where you see $170 million annual budget, put $231 million.Where you see 2,000 employees, put 3,000.Where you see 700 children, put 1,520.Where you see $220,000 to house a child in a state facility, put $124,000.Whitmire has been advocating for some time now to abolish the Texas Youth Commission in its entirety and as much as they've successfully downsized, it's hard to argue with his approach...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).