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HB 291 Relating to occupational driver's licenses and to the renewal of driver's licenses. Position: Opposed. Presented by Akanksha Balekai
Article V - Public Safety and Criminal Justice RE: Creating a grant to support the creation of community-based crisis response programs in rural jurisdictions. Presented by Brennan Griffin, Senior Deputy Director, Texas Appleseed
Article IV – The Judiciary, the Office of Court Administration RE: Funding for the text-based court reminder system created by HB 4293 (87th (R)) Presented by Cole Meyer, Criminal Justice Policy Associate, Texas Appleseed
At any given time, more than 120,000 people are incarcerated in Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) facilities (est. 122,000 as of Dec. 2020).2 Tens of thousands of people are released each year, either on parole or having completed their sentences. Within three years, more than one in five people will be re-incarcerated, at a rate that makes TDCJ a national leader, even by its own statistics.3 This record of high recidivism reflects not criminal behavior per se, but rather an inescapable nexus of poverty, societal abandonment, and criminalization. This combination of intractable social issues consistently fails thousands of Texans, their families, and their communities. Upending this pattern of incarceration and re-incarceration requires greater interventions of investment and coordination than have been previously mustered on behalf of persons re-entering society after incarceration. Importantly, these interventions must take place throughout each person’s incarceration and thereafter, not merely leading up to his or her release.

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