[2019 Session] Divert People from the Justice System Altogether and Provide Them Treatment in the Community
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Pre-Arrest Diversion
Alternatives to Incarceration
Quick Guide: A Failure in the Fourth Degree
When Prison Reform Goes Bad
Doug Smith, a senior policy analyst with the nonprofit Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, says lawmakers never delivered on the rehabilitation-focused approach they had promised. Without re-entry planning, ongoing mental health Read more »
Texas inspired Washington’s prison reform plan. Ted Cruz isn’t convinced
“Any criminal justice researcher will tell you that the people who are least likely to [commit the same crime over again] are people who have committed violent crimes,” said Doug Read more »
Advocates say the timing is right for independent oversight of Texas prisons
A bill aiming to detach the ombudsman from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice died in 2017. But news from the past year makes advocates hopeful that 2019 will be Read more »
The Power Issue: Tim Dunn Is Pushing the Republican Party Into the Arms of God
The liberal Texas Criminal Justice Coalition was a major player in the fight, but it was the support of the conservative TPPF that helped make passage possible in a Republican-dominated Read more »
Progressives unseated all 59 Republican judges up for re-election in Houston in the midterms
"For 19 black women and a socialist to be elected judge in Houston, which is the epicenter of mass incarceration, is not a small deal," said Jay Jenkins, an attorney Read more »
Promise not to kill anyone? After losing election, TX judge wholesale releases juvenile defendants
After losing his bench in a Democratic sweep, Harris County Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin released nearly all of the youthful defendants that appeared in front him on Wednesday morning, Read more »
Walk-In Walk-Out
County commissioners change course on substance abuse treatment funding.
Read the rest of this article at the Austin Chronicle. Read more »
Talking Points: Best quotes and tweets of the week
"What we ultimately got was a juvenile system where the lawyers get rich ... and everybody wins but the kids." — Jay Jenkins, an attorney from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, who Read more »
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