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Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budget

While up at the capitol Friday on other business, I ran into some Harris County folks - including former Judge and current jail czarina Caprice Cosper, as well as Alan Bernstein and Dr. Mike Seale (who Grits readers may recall graciously led me on an extensive jail tour last year), along with a small gaggle of others - who'd come to Austin to brief legislative staff on the effects, in particular, of mental health cuts on the criminal justice system and the Harris County Jail. Unfortunately, they'd just finished the event, but I picked up their handouts and read them this morning. Remarkably, the theme of their materials sounds quite similar to that struck in my reaction post on Grits following my jail tour last summer.Harris Couty is primarily worried that cuts to community supervision, diversion programming and mental health services for adults and children go so deep that the state won't even qualify to receive federal matching funds...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2011 (boomark / email).