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LBB: Texas' 2010-11 budget won't be completely strapped

With several big-ticket criminal justice items on the table during the 81st Texas Legislature - most prominently a half-billion in raises for prison staff and another 8-9 figure expense for new programs to combat contraband smuggling in prisons - many have been openly wondering whether the state will have enough money to pay for it all.What's more, TYC requires investments in smaller facilities, special education, and expanded mental health services, while the Legislature has underinvested in free-world mental health services, in particular, in ways that direly impact the justice system. And that doesn't even begin to address problems at state mental hospitals, state schools for the mentally retarded, nor poor quality public schools which consciously channel their failures into the justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).