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Whitmire supplies more detail on proposed youth prison diversion money

I just spoke with Sen. John Whitmire, chair of the Senate Criminal Justice Commitee, who thought my post titled "The Yo-Yo Effect" was "off base," particularly my pessimism that there wouldn't be enough money for counties to manage the influx of delinquent kids, or that the Lege might reduce its commitment to such services somewhere down the line.Whitmire said the main cause of TYC's high costs are a bloated, central office bureaucracy, not just increased staffing ratios in the field. He also gave me names of several county officials who he said were supportive of changes he's proposing, and I promised to speak to each of them and follow up in future blog posts. None of those individuals were immediately available, but in the meantime, one of his staffers forwarded me a proposal from Dallas juvie probation chief Mike Griffith outlining in greater detail than I've heretofore seen the nuts and bolts of how new state funding might functionally supplement counties...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 04, 2009 (boomark / email).