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TDCJ Grows & Grows

Loaded on May 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News May, 1995, page 18
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends. Location: Texas.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had a 1994 budget of $1.84 million dollars. According to the Texas Comptroller that is slated to grow to $3 billion by the year 2000. Texas currently has an incarceration rate of 553 per 100,000 (the highest in the country) and this is …

 

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