Showing posts with label Recidivism programs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recidivism programs. Show all posts
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Declines in TX recidivism led by parole success

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Texas' recidivism rates are declining, according to this publication from the Council of State Governments Justice Center. According to...
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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Natural experiment tests rehabilitation potential for teen killers

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Source: TCJC Twitter feed . Grits has been thinking a lot lately about the question of whether adult justice systems sufficiently addres...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

Committee backs boosting programs to prevent recidivism

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The section of the Texas House Corrections Committee interim report to the 84th Legislature on "recidivism" had some good element...
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Monday, August 01, 2016

Harris pays more, gets worse safety outcomes from coercing pleas through detention of poor and innocent misdemeanor defendants

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This new academic paper focused on Harris County, " The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention ," has implicati...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Texas released 52% more violent offenders in 2014 than 2005

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Texas prisons released 52 percent more prisoners convicted of violent offenses in FY 2014 than in FY 2005 , according to the TDCJ annual st...
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Saturday, February 06, 2016

Previewing interim charges at House Corrections Committee

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The Texas House Corrections Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss an array of interim charges, so lets preview each of them...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Some TDCJ treatment programs increase recidivism

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A friend forwarded me a copy of this recidivism analysis from Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison rehabilitation programs, lamentin...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Bill to reduce recidivism, increase state-jail felon program participation would save state $227.7 million

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The Texas House last week approved a nice little bill by Rep. Alma Allen, HB 1546 , which would save the state $227.7 million over the next ...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Healthcare at reentry helps prevent recidivism

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This article from Medicine@Yale makes an argument Grits has posited before, particularly as it relates to mental health services : That exp...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

TPPF in the news: Reducing technical revocations, clarifying recidivism data

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A couple of recent Texas Public Policy Foundation reports got good press coverage this week: Texas Tribune: " Lawmakers urged to refo...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Cornyn: Reform federal prisons based on Texas model

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Texas' US Sen. John Cornyn this month introduced federal legislation, S. 1783 , styled the Federal Prison Reform Act of 2013, that he sa...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Probation revocations down, but not by much; re-arrest rates among DWI probationers plummets

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More evidence that Texas' 2007 probation reforms perhaps contributed less than has been previously estimated to recent prison populatio...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Southern states pushing de-incarceration envelope

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Recent legislation in other southern states offer possibilities for sentencing reform that perhaps could be replicated by the 83rd Texas Leg...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Report: More TX drug arrests, stagnant diversion funds could soon fill up prisons

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A new report from our friends at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition calls for expanded access to drug treatment services, reported the Tex...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

'We need rational approach to incarceration'

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An op ed in the Amarillo Globe News today by restorative justice advocates with the same title as this post argues for a smarter approach t...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Studies bring positive news on recidivism, corrections spending

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A pair of recent public policy reports offer hopeful news. First, the Austin Statesman brings word of a Council of State Governments report...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

LBB to explain recidivism report

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Interested in how recidivism rates are calculated in Texas? This event in Austin later this week by the Legislative Budget Board may interes...
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