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House, Senate budgets set up false debate on corrections priorities

"Must one smash their ears before they learn to listen with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and preachers of repentance?"- Nietzsche, Thus Spake ZarathustraThe Texas Senate Finance Committee released its own draft budget yesterday, and according to initial reports it was more generous overall than the starkly sparse House budget. (See the Legislative Budget Board for all the relevant documents.) The Senate draft, like its House counterpart relying mostly on suggestions from agencies, continues to focus most cuts at TDCJ in community supervision instead of suggesting more prison closures (with the exception of the Central Unit, which is slated for elimination in both), but it does restore some of the treatment and diversion funding proposed for deletion in HB 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).