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LBB: Prison population flat for years to come, unless Texas cuts diversion programming

After legislative leaders said possible prison closures depend in part on the Legislative Budget Board's estimate of how many beds will be needed, I've looking forward to the publication of LBB's inmate population projections (pdf) that were released today covering fiscal years 2010-2015. The friend who forwarded the link summarized the results thusly:Adult Incarceration: Flat Adult Parole: Steady increase Adult Felony Community Supervision: Steady increase Adult Misdemeanor: Slight decrease TYC: Flat Juvenile Probation: Flat There's more, though, because the LBB estimates potentially preclude several of the larger cuts suggested by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to treatment and diversion programming. In the methodology described in Appendix A, LBB lets us know that these flatline projections only hold if diversion programming isn't cut, asserting dryly (p...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).