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| Texas Prisons Affected by State Budget Cuts |
| By kxxv.com |
| Published: 02/22/2010 |
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WACO- The Texas Department of Criminal Justice released a letter Monday to Governor Rick Perry and his staff asking for exemptions from a proposed 5% reduction from the 2010-11 biennial budget. These proposed cuts are being called irresponsible by the prison employee unions. In that letter the TDCJ said that the areas most impacted will be probation, offender treatment services, security, offender health care, and parole supervision. "Reduction in those areas we feel like would not only increase recidivism, meaning more people coming back into the system, but also affect our community supervision," Jason Clark, TDCJ Public Information, said. Read More. |
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