NCJ Number
160355
Date Published
1995
Length
85 pages
Annotation
This report summarizes the activities and accomplishments of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice during fiscal year 1994 and notes that the State's prison expansion program is the most active in the United States and has provided the foundation for a unified corrections system that will have the capacity to incarcerate 150,000 felons.
Abstract
This expansion program is being accomplished at less than half the national average cost of prison construction. The Department also established and enhanced new programs, starting with the opening of the new State jails. Authorized by the State legislature as an innovative concept in community corrections in 1993, the State jails house inmates convicted of a new class of fourth-degree felonies that are nonviolent property crimes. The State jail concept emphasizes a continuum of corrections in which educational, vocational, and behavioral programs started in a State jail are continued in the community after release. The State jail construction program will include 18 facilities with a capacity of 25,000. The agency also reported accomplishments in the areas of parole, assistance to local probation agencies, drug abuse and sex offender treatment, victim services, prison industry, and internal operations. Tables, photographs, and information about each State prison