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| TX seeks `smart' approach to prisons |
| By The Dallas Morning News |
| Published: 01/08/2007 |
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AUSTIN, TX - Texas prisons are packed, and state corrections officials are urging the Legislature to build three units. But traditionally tough-on-crime lawmakers appear ready to take a different approach - rehabilitation. Legislators at the forefront of the debate say they can meet a projected shortfall of 11,000 beds in 2011 by moving thousands of low-level or parole-ready prison inmates into supervised community programs and by bolstering substance-abuse programs to free up beds held by minor drug and alcohol offenders. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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