Big-Business Lobby Enters Fray on Criminal Justice Reforms

Published January 26, 2013

Big-business lobby enters fray on criminal justice reforms

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Bill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business, said the group plans to push to expand successful rehabilitation and community-based corrections programs; to change Texas' drug-sentencing laws to put more low-level offenders in local …
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'Downton Abbey' Watch: Another wedding, and the war between Thomas and O …

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Still, starting with her second season arc working in Downton's makeshift rehabilitation center, she started to mellow, become more gracious, and one genuinely hoped for the best with this quickie marriage to neighbor Sir Anthony. No, he's no spring …
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State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs

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Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Gene Mooney, a small-time thief and drug user who was the poster boy for the creation of Texas' system of rehabilitation-oriented state jails in 1995, is still in prison. … “Texas taxpayers shoulder the …
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