Come on JB, let them have it.



http://www.tdcaa.com/dynam_iprosec.asp?iid=1

When they drastically reduced the population of TYC, what criteria was used to determine the "appropriate" TYC population?

I made 3 or 4 trips up to Austin during this last session to testify before the House Corrections Committee and the House Crim Just. Committee. What a surreal experience that was.

It seemed to me that many of the legislators were far more sympathetic to the testimony of the lobbiest for the ACLU/LULAC, and the lobbiest for the Committee for Doing Good and Opposing Evil (it had some other name, which I can't recall, but that's pretty close)and their friends, than they had from prosecutors, parole board members, and cops.

As a result, the legislature passed a number of "reforms" that let a lot of "children" out of TYC, and the same papers that decry the result--rapes, robberies, etc etc--were then singing their praises.

Maybe, if the public gets mad enough, the legislature will learn that letting criminals out of the joint is not a "reform" (which means, "a change for the better,") but just a bad idea.

It's one of those deals where those who argue for early release, of either TYC youth or TDCJ inmates, should be required to have their own criminal/parolee/juvenile offender come live with them as a condition of parole. 24/7. Let them see what the reality of their fanciful idealism is. Hopefully, most will live through it and only suffer property loss.