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Outside Resources
The following key reports and resources have been published by other organizations and agencies that engage in efforts around sentencing and diversions. Please visit TCJC’s Public Policy Center for Sunset-related testimony, reports, and informational flyers. If you know of a resource that is not included here, please email us at [email protected] to let us know.
Texas Legislative, Budget, and Agency Publications
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice: 2011 Annual Review (July 2012)
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Agency Strategic Plan, FY 2013-2017 (July 2012)
- Community Justice Assistance Division: FY 2011 Offenders Under Direct Supervision [Excel spreadsheet] (June 2012)
- Legislative Budget Board: Adult and Juvenile Corrections Projections, FY 2012-17 (June 2012)
- Community Justice Assistance Division: Report on Monitoring Diversion Funds (Dec 2011)
- Office of Senator Rodney Ellis: Testimony to TCJS on Variances in the Harris County Jail (Nov 2011)
- Legislative Budget Board: Criminal Justice Uniform Cost Report, FY 2008-2010 (Jan 2011)
- Legislative Budget Board: Criminal Justice Recidivism and Revocation Rates (Jan 2011)
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Statistical Report, FY 2010 (Dec 2010)
Federal Agency Publications
- United States Department of Justice: PREA Impact Assessment (May 2012)
Advocacy and Research Organization Publications
- Vera Institute of Justice: Reallocating Justice Resources (Apr 2012)
- Vera Institute of Justice: The Price of Prisons [report] (Jan 2012)
- Vera Institute of Justice: The Price of Prisons: Texas Fact Sheet (Jan 2012)
- ACLU: Banking on Bondage [re: Prison Privatization] (Nov 2011)
- Vera Institute of Justice: LA County Jail Overcrowding Reduction Project (Sep 2011)
- Justice Center & Bureau of Justice Assistance: 10-Step Guide to Transforming Probation Departments (Aug 2011)
- The Sentencing Project: On the Chopping Block – State Prison Closings (Aug 2011)
- Justice Policy Institute: Gaming the System [re: Prison Privatization] (June 2011)
- NAACP: Misplaced Priorities [re: Incarceration vs. Education Spending] (May 2011)
- Pew Center on the States: The State of Recidivism (Apr 2011)
- Pew Center on the States: Recidivism: What the Public Thinks [Polling Results] (Apr 2011)
- Center for Effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation: Thinking Outside the Cell (Feb 2011)
- ACLU of Texas, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, and Texas State Rifle Association: Above the Law (Jan 2007)
- American Bar Association: Standards relating to criminal justice, including on the following topics: Mental Health, Sentencing, and Treatment of Prisoners
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