Travis County
Travis County (Austin) is the state’s fifth-largest driver of people into state prison and home of the state’s fifth-largest county jail population. Drug possession is a large driver of local incarceration, with felony drug possession cases increasing by 34% from 2014 to 2019. The local treatment infrastructure has been insufficient to address the high need for services.
Check out our work to address issues relating to policing, pretrial detention, women’s incarceration, and drug arrests, as well as our work to promote data transparency.
