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Governor endorses radical cuts to prison agency

Regular readers know that the Texas House and Senate have already released draft budgets that suggested massive cuts to state agencies across the board, including at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. At TDCJ, the House suggested cutting $786.4 million from the total budget, and the Senate recommended cutting $583.6 million, both remarkably large sums. Yesterday after his State of the State speech, Governor Rick Perry's office released the governor's own suggested budget (pdf), recommending the Lege adopt the House's more aggressive approach to prison-agency cuts. He also recommended selling the land around the Central Unit in Sugar Land, estimating it would bring in $30 million. That may be a little high; a 2006 appraisal estimated the market value of the land at $10...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).