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Adult probation cuts detailed from just-filed Texas budget bill

A reliable informant forwarded me an email from Carey Welebob, director of the Community Justice Assistance Division at TDCJ, to local probation directors around the state, including this "preliminary summary" of cuts to probation funding in the recently filed version of HB 1:Preliminary Summary of the FY 2012-13 General Appropriations Bill, as Introduced, House Version   As stated in an email yesterday, the House version of the general appropriations bill was filed on Wednesday, January 19, 2011.  Below is a short summary of the proposed reductions specific to probation; following that is the impact to other TDCJ functions. The general appropriations bill is typically filed in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, and a similar summary of the Senate version will be sent when it becomes available...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).