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TX House budget writers urge prisons to release sick and elderly prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Texas House budget writers urge prisons to release more feeble inmates By ROBERT T. GARRETT / Austin Bureau Dallas Morning News Published 10 February 2011 11:55 AM More on this story AUSTIN ? Texas? corrections chiefs should consider freeing more feeble inmates and quit holding them until they die, some House budget writers said Thursday. Legislative budget staff members have criticized current practices, saying they sock taxpayers with huge costs for gravely disabled and geriatric inmates? medical care in prison. In 2009, only 59 of 337 inmates recommended for medical release won discharge by the parole board, according to the Legislative Budget Board. That year, 74 inmates died of natural causes behind bars, said a recent board report...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).