NCJ Number
164292
Date Published
1993
Length
68 pages
Annotation
The Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council has projected the correctional populations in Texas to the year 2002, based on criminal justice policies and the impact of continuing decreases in crime in 1995 and 1996, a decline in parole revocations, and a decline in the number of offenders sentenced to prison.
Abstract
The projections assume additional prison construction and the transfer of four adult correctional facilities to the juvenile justice system. The projections indicate that the State will need to add 2,970 beds to prison capacity beyond the 1,980 beds previously indicator and that the State will have no backlog of State offenders in county jails awaiting transfer to prison. However, the State jails will need to continue housing inmates awaiting transfer inmates. State jails are projected to house 14,552 State jail felons and 9,705 transfer inmates by the year 2002. The continuation of current parole practices will mean that aggravated violent offenders will serve 80 percent of their sentences before release, while approximately 65 percent of all sex offenders sentenced to prison are likely to serve their full sentence before release. Tables