What do you say when it's all been said before?

The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee today will consider the committee substitute for SB 1266 by Whitmire -- Texas' long awaited probation reform package, adjusted to account for substantial public input. I'd planned to analyze the bill and several proposed amendments, but since other obligations precluded it (Catonya read the 101 page bill, she announced in the comments!), I've gathered together some past Grits posts regarding what's arguably the most important home-grown Texas criminal justice reform so far in the 21st century.

• Probation and sentencing roundup
• Keep the Keys
• Tell me baby do you want it?
• Dead messenger talking: Tony Fabelo on probation reform
• (Not) frequently (enough) asked questions
• Gov. Perry: 'Better ways' than more prisons
• Fort Bend 'special sanctions' court shows probation can work
• Haggerty bill smart on probation policy
• 'We could pay for a lot of children's healthcare ...'
• Solutions for funding probation
• Senate committee: Drug courts work
• Harris County driving incarceration train

Related:

• Texas prisons full
  
• Who is to blame for prison red ink?
• LBB hasn't learned there's no free lunch