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Texas is exceptional not just for the sheer number of people under state control but also for the persistently brutal and inhumane conditions of their confinement, as discussed in chapters 3 and 6. The Lone Star State ranks fifth from the bottom in what it spends on average to house and care for each inmate under its control, or 43 percent less than the national average.98 It is dead last in per capita spending on indigent criminal defense services.99 Several years ago, Texas was forced to shut down the state’s juvenile detention agency and transform its juvenile justice system after a media exposé documented widespread physical and sexual abuse of youths in detention that state officials were aware of but had not acted upon.

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But their main focus was on rebuilding communities to enhance public safety and not on devising better prison-based and reentry programs to remake the individuals who cycle in and out of prison. In the years since Tucker and Cadora introduced the idea of justice reinvestment, it has morphed into something quite different. It now “runs the danger of institutionalizing mass incarceration at current levels.”

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Justice reinvestment has at best acted as a brake on some future prison growth.

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Justice reinvestment has at best acted as a brake on some future prison growth.

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Leave a comment here with one important quote or critique to take back to the rest of the class

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Leave a comment here with one important quote or critique to take back to the rest of the class

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Would defunding prisons solve the problems of mass incarceration? 

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Would defunding prisons solve the problems of mass incarceration? 

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Is Justice Reinvestment a failed strategy?

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Is Justice Reinvestment a failed strategy?

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Has the United States ever really tried to address crime from the root causes? 

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Has the United States ever really tried to address crime from the root causes? 

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Has the United States attempted Justice Reinvestment? 

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Has the United States attempted Justice Reinvestment? 

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You are the Republican governor of Texas and you have the power to tell the future. You have a vision that the $241 million your colleagues just passed won't make a dent in incarceration. What do you do instead? How do you want to spend this $241 million instead? And how do you convince your Republican colleagues?

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You are the Republican governor of Texas and you have the power to tell the future. You have a vision that the $241 million your colleagues just passed won't make a dent in incarceration. What do you do instead? How do you want to spend this $241 million instead? And how do you convince your Republican colleagues?