Alternatives to Incarceration

Participants discuss Texas’ next step in “bipartisan” movement dealing with the over incarceration of women.

Read the rest of this article at Austin Monthly.

Substance abuse, poverty, economic disadvantages, and mental health issues have contributed to a dramatic increase in the number of women incarcerated in Texas in the last three decades, community leaders, law enforcement officials and attorneys said Wednesday.

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Crimes that land women in prison was the focus of a criminal justice reform discussion on the U-T campus.

Watch the video at KXAN. 

Since the early 1990s, Texas has seen a spike in the number of women entering the prison system.

Read the rest of this article – and listen to an interview with TCJC’s Lindsey Linder – at Texas Public Radio.

In Houston, a lack of transparency and poor communication between immigration and criminal courts has created a civil rights nightmare and a clog in the system.

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Conservative voters are seeing the value in rehabilitation for offenders jailed on non-violent drug charges.

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A new survey by the bipartisan Texas Smart-On-Crime Coalition shows a majority of Republican primary voters support criminal justice reforms in the state.

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Texas now incarcerates more women by sheer number than any other state in the country, according to a new report.

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Men comprise 91 percent of the Texas prison population, but as the number of male inmates has dropped, the female population continues to increase.

Read the rest of this article at Texas Standard.

What is the best way to deal with juvenile crime? A summit meeting at the state capitol is trying to come up with that answer.

Read the rest of this article at KLBJ News Radio.