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TDCJ reduced spending on prisoner food 13.5% since 2009

Here's a little-discussed budget cut that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has already implemented over the last couple of years which I was unaware of before seeing it in the recently released analyses of the proposed House and Senate Budgets (available from LBB):Food for Persons - Wards of State:Expended 2009: $106,601,431Estimated 2010: $100,702,356Budgeted 2011: $92,236,867(Data from p. 552 of this enormous pdf)If I'm reading these documents correctly, the 2011 "budgeted" amount (the current fiscal year) is the figure allocated after the agency was required to reduce its budget by state leadership last fall. In that preemptory move, TDCJ absorbed 15% of all state agency budget cuts totaling $75 million, and prisoners' food bill was apparently one source of savings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 30, 2011 (boomark / email).