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TDCJ to cut 1.3% of spending in current fiscal year

Here's a new summary (pdf) of a 1.3% budget reduction at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice scheduled to be implemented during the current fiscal year. That's $40 million, down from the $75 million reduction state leaders had previously requested for FY 2010. These cuts must occur in this year's budget, between now and August, while budget cuts contemplated in HB 1 and SB 1 would begin in September 2011 for the coming biennium.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).