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prison expenditures for drug offenders

E-mail Letter from TDCJ

In response to your emailed inquiry dated April 19, 2008, I am providing the following information.
As shown in the General Appropriations Act of the 80th Legislature Regular Session, the TDCJ was appropriated $3,099,849,907. Of that amount, $2,237,184,547 was appropriated to Goal C, Incarcerate Felons. Therefore, the percentage of the TDCJ budget associated with incarcerating offenders is 72%. Information specific to incarcerating drug offenders would be a subset of that amount.

Pamela Jacobs
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Business and Finance
Division
861B I-45 North P.O. Box 4015
Huntsville, TX 77342
(936) 437-6588

Kristi Rushing/Business _Finance/TDCJ To Pamela 04/25/2008 03:42 Jacobs/Business_Finance/TDCJ@TDCJ PM cc Subject Fw: info on prison expenditures for drug offenders compared with other felons

Texas Prison Unit Directory - 116 Prisons!!!

ALLRED
JA
2101 FM 369 North, Iowa Park, Texas 76367 / (940) 855-7477
BARTLETT
BL
P. O. Box 650, Bartlett, Texas 76511 / (254) 527-3300
BATEN ISF
NJ
1995 Hilton Road, Pampa, Texas 79065 / (806) 665-7070
BETO
B
P. O. Box 128, Tennessee Colony, Texas 75880 / (903) 928-2217
BOYD
BY
Route 2 Box 500, Teague, Texas 75860 / (254) 739-5555
BRADSHAW
BH
P. O. Box 9000, Henderson, Texas 75653-9000 / (903) 655-0880
BRIDGEPORT
BR
4000 North Tenth Street, Bridgeport, Texas 76426 / (940) 683-3010
BRIDGEPORT
TC
222 Lake Road, Bridgeport, Texas 76426 / (940) 683-2162
BRISCOE
DB
1459 West Hwy 85, Dilley, Texas 78017 / (830) 965-4444
BYRD
DU
P. O. Box 100, Huntsville, Texas 77342-0100 / (936) 295-5768
CENTRAL
C
One Circle Drive, Sugar Land, Texas 77478 / (281) 491-2146
CENTRAL TEXAS
XK
218 South Laredo Street, San Antonio, Texas 78207 / (210) 227-5600
CLEMENS
CN
11034 Hwy 36, Brazoria, Texas 77422 / (979) 798-2188
CLEMENTS
BC
9601 Spur 591, Amarillo, Texas 79107-9606 / (806) 381-7080
CLEVELAND
CV
P. O. Box 1678, Cleveland, Texas 77328 / (281) 592-9559
COFFIELD
CO
Route 1 Box 150, Tennessee Colony, Texas 75884 / (903) 928-2211
COLE
CL
3801 Silo Road, Bonham, Texas 75418 / (903) 583-1100
CONNALLY
CY
899 FM 632, Kenedy, Texas 78119 / (830) 583-4003
COTULLA
N4
HC 62 Box 100, Cotulla, Texas 78014 / (830) 879-3077
DALHART
DH
11950 FM 998 Dalhart, Texas 79022 / (806) 249-8655
DANIEL
DL
938 South FM 1673, Snyder, Texas 79549 / (325) 573-1114
DARRINGTON
DA
59 Darrington Road, Rosharon, Texas 77583 / (281) 595-3465
DAWSON
JD
P. O. Box 650675, Dallas, Texas 75265 / (214) 744-4422
DIBOLL
DO
1604 South First Street, Diboll, Texas 75941 / (936) 829-2295
DOMINGUEZ
BX
6535 Cagnon Road, San Antonio, Texas 78252-2202 / (210) 675-6620
DUNCAN
N6
1502 South First Street, Diboll, Texas 75941 / (936) 829-2616
EAST TEXAS
XQ
101 B. West Whaley, Longview, Texas 75606 / (903) 238-8132
EASTHAM
EA
P. O. Box 16, Lovelady, Texas 75851 / (936) 636-7321
EL PASO MULTI
XO
1700 Horizon Blvd, El Paso, Texas 79928 / (915) 852-1505
ELLIS
E
Ellis Unit, Huntsville, Texas 77343 / (936) 295-5756
ESTELLE
E2
264 FM 3478, Huntsville, Texas 77320-3320 / (936) 291-4200
ESTES
VS
1100 Hwy 1807, Venus, Texas 76084 / (972) 366-3334
FERGUSON
FE
12120 Savage Drive, Midway, Texas 75852 / (936) 348-3751
FORMBY
FB
970 County Road AA, Plainview, Texas 79072 / (806) 296-2448
FT. STOCKTON
N5
1536 IH-10 East, Fort Stockton, Texas 79735 / (432) 336-7676
GARZA EAST
NI
4304 Hwy. 202, Beeville, Texas 78102 / (361) 358-9880
GARZA WEST
NH
4250 Hwy. 202, Beeville, Texas 78102 / (361) 358-9890
GATESVILLE
GV
1401 State School Road, Gatesville, Texas 76599-2999 / (254) 865-8431
GIST
BJ
3295 FM 3514, Beaumont, Texas 77705 / (409) 727-8400
GLOSSBRENNER
SO
5100 South FM 1329, San Diego, Texas 78384 / (361) 279-2705
GOODMAN
GG
Route 1 Box 273, Jasper, Texas 75951 / (409) 383-0012
GOREE
GR
7405 Hwy 75 South, Huntsville, Texas 77344 / (936) 295-6331
GURNEY
ND
P. O. Box 6400, Tennessee Colony, Texas 75861 / (903) 928-3118
HALBERT
BB
P. O. Box 923, Burnet, Texas 78611 / (512) 756-6171
HAMILTON
JH
200 Lee Morrison Lane, Bryant, TX 77807 / (979) 779-1633
HAVINS
TH
P. O. Box 90401, Brownwood, Texas 76801-4401 / (325) 643-5575
HENLEY
LT
7581 Hwy 321, Dayton, Texas 77535 / (936) 258-2476
HIGHTOWER
HI
902 FM 686, Dayton, Texas 77535 / (936) 258-8013
HILLTOP
HT
1500 State School Road, Gatesville, Texas 76598-2996 / (254) 865-8901
HOBBY
HB
742 FM 712, Marlin, Texas 76661 / (254) 883-5561
HODGE
HD
P. O. Box 999, Rusk, Texas 75785 / (903) 683-5781
HOLLIDAY
NF
295 IH-45 North, Huntsville, Texas 77320-8443 / (936) 295-8200
HOSPITALGALVESTON
HG
P. O. Box 48, Substation #1, Galveston, Texas 77555 / (409) 772-2875
HUGHES
AH
Route 2, Box 4400, Gatesville, Texas 76597 / (254) 865-6663
HUNTSVILLE
HV
P. O. Box 99, Huntsville, Texas 77342-0099 / (936) 437-1975
HUTCHINS
HJ
1500 East Langdon Road, Dallas, Texas 75241 / (972) 225-1304
JESTER I
J1
Jester I, Richmond, Texas 77469 / (281) 277-3030
JESTER III
J3
Jester III, Richmond, Texas 77469 / (281) 277-7000
JESTER IV
J4
Jester IV, Richmond, Texas 77469-8549 / (281) 277-3700
JOHNSTON
JT
703 Airport Road, Winnsboro, Texas 75494 / (903) 342-6166
JORDAN
JN
1992 Hilton Road, Pampa, Texas 79065 / (806) 665-7070
KEGANS
HM
707 Top Street, Houston, Texas 77002 / (713) 224-6584
KYLE
KY
23001 IH-35 Kyle, Texas 76640 / (512) 268-0079
LEBLANC
BA
3695 FM 3514, Beaumont, Texas 77705 / (409) 724-1515
LEWIS
GL
P. O. Box 9000, Woodville, Texas 75990 / (409) 283-8181
LINDSEY
LN
1620 Old Post Oak Road, Jacksboro, Texas 76458 / (940) 567-2272
LOCKHART
LC
P. O. Box 1170, Lockhart, Texas 78644 / (512) 398-3480
LOCKHART
TC
P. O. Box 1170, Lockhart, Texas 78644 / (512) 398-3480 (**109)
LOPEZ
RL
1203 El Cibolo Road, Edinburg, Texas 78541-9334 / (956) 316-3810
LUTHER
P2
1800 Luther Drive, Navasota, Texas 77869 / (936) 825-7547
LYCHNER
AJ
2350 Atascocita Road, Humble, Texas 77396 / (281) 454-5036
LYNAUGH
LH
1098 S. Hwy 2037, Fort Stockton, Texas 79735 / (432) 395-2938
MAC STRINGFELLOW
R2
1200 FM 655, Rosharon, Texas 77583 / (281) 595-3413
MCCONNELL
ML
3001 South Emily Drive, Beeville, Texas 78102 / (361) 362-2300
MICHAEL
MI
P. O. Box 4500, Tennessee Colony, Texas 75886 / (903) 928-2311
MIDDLETON
NE
13055 FM 3522, Abilene, Texas 79601 / (325) 548-9075
MINERAL WELLS
TC
759 Heintzelman Road, Mineral Wells, Texas 76067 / (940) 325-6933
MONTFORD
JM
8602 Peach Street, Lubbock, Texas 79404 / (806) 745-1021
MOORE, B.
BM
8500 North FM 3053, Overton, Texas 75684 / (903) 834-6186
MOORE, C.
CM
1700 North FM 87, Bonham, Texas 75418 / (903) 583-4464
MT. VIEW
MV
2305 Ransom Road, Gatesville, Texas 76528 / (254) 865-7226
MURRAY
LM
1916 North Hwy 36 Bypass, Gatesville, Texas 76596 / (254) 865-2000
NEAL
KN
9055 Spur 591, Amarillo, Texas 79107-9696 / (806) 383-1175
NEY
HF
114 Private Road 4303, Hondo, Texas 78861-3812 / (830) 426-8030
NORTH TEXAS
XL
4700 Blue Mound Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76106 / (817) 740-0180
PACK
P1
2400 Wallace Pack Road, Navasota, Texas 77869 / (936) 825-3728
PLANE
LJ
904 FM 686, Dayton, Texas 77535 / (936) 258-2476
POLUNSKY
TL
3872 FM 350 South, Livingston, Texas 77351 / (936) 967-8082
POWLEDGE
B2
Route 2 Box 2250, Palestine, Texas 75882 / (903) 723-5074
RAMSEY
R1
1100 FM 655, Rosharon, Texas 77583 / (281) 595-3491
ROACH
RH
15845 FM 164, Childress, Texas 79201 / (940) 937-6364
ROBERTSON
RB
12071 FM 3522, Abilene, Texas 79601 / (325) 548-9035
RUDD
RD
2004 Lamesa Highway, Brownfield, Texas 79316 / (806) 637-4470
SANCHEZ
RZ
3901 State Jail Road, El Paso, Texas 79938-8456 / (915) 856-0046
SAYLE
SY
4176 FM 1800, Breckenridge, Texas 76424-7301 / (254) 559-1581
SCOTT
RV
6999 Retrieve, CR 290 Angleton, Texas 77515 / (979) 849-9306
SEGOVIA
EN
1201 E. El Cibolo Road, Edinburg, Texas 78541 / (956) 316-2400
SKYVIEW
SV
P. O. Box 999, Rusk, Texas 75785 / (903) 683-5781
SMITH
SM
1313 CR 19, Lamesa, Texas 79331-1898 / (806) 872-6741
SOUTH TEXAS
XM
1511 Preston Road, Houston, Texas 77002 / (713) 223-0601
STEVENSON
SB
1525 FM 766, Cuero, Texas 77954 / (361) 275-2075
STILES
ST
3060 FM 3514, Beaumont, Texas 77705 / (409) 722-5255
TELFORD
TO
P. O. Box 9200, New Boston, Texas 75570 / (903) 628-3171
TERRELL
R3
1300 FM 655, Rosharon, Texas 77583 / (281) 595-3481
TORRES
TE
125 Private Road 4303, Hondo, Texas 78861 / (830) 426-5325
TRAVIS CO
TI
8101 FM 969, Austin, Texas 78724 / (512) 926-4482
TULIA
N3
4000 Hwy 86 West, Tulia, Texas 79088 / (806) 995-4109
VANCE
J2
Carol Vance Unit, Richmond, Texas 77469 / (281) 277-3030
WALLACE
WL
P. O. Box 2000, Colorado City, Texas 79512 / (325) 728-2162
WARE
DW
P. O. Box 2500, Colorado City, Texas 79512 / (325) 728-2162
WEST TEXAS
XN
P. O. Box 1359/2002 Lamesa Highway, Brownfield, Texas 79316 / (806) 637-4032
WHEELER
WR
986 County Road AA, Plainview, Texas 79072 / (806) 293-1081
WILLACY CO
WI
1695 South Buffalo Drive, Raymondville, Texas 78580 / (956) 689-4900
WOODMAN
WM
1210 Coryell City Road, Gatesville, Texas 76528 / (254) 865-9398
WYNNE
WY
Wynne Unit, Huntsville, Texas 77349 / (936) 295-9126
YOUNG MEDICAL FACILITY COMPLEX
GC
Route 4 Box 1174, Dickinson, Texas 77539 / (409) 948-0024

TEXAS TOUGH!

This is from the website of Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
The Lone Star State's criminal justice system is particularly worthy of scrutiny at this time, as the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in August, 2000 that Texas, for the first time, leads the nation in imprisoning its citizens: Texas now has the nation's largest incarcerated population under the jurisdiction of its prison system.11 Since 1990, Texas has lead the nation's 50 states with an annual average growth rate of 11.8%, about twice the annual average growth rate of other state prison systems (6.1%). Even more important to the national context, since 1990, nearly one in five new prisoners added to the nation's prisons (18%) was in Texas.12
In this report, we examine to what extent the criminal justice population of Texas has grown in recent years, as well as what specific communities have been most impacted by this growth. This brief will also examine the effectiveness of such growth in decreasing the rate of victimization experienced by Texans by comparing changes in crime in Texas to other U.S. states.
Texas: The Toughest and the BiggestAs of August 2000, BJS reported that Texas pulled slightly ahead of California to earn the distinction of having the largest population of inmates under the jurisdiction of its prison system. But even before Texas became first in prisoners, the state held the questionable honor of having the largest criminal justice system in the United States, with an astonishing proportion of its population under criminal justice control.
As of year end 1999, there were 706,60013 Texans in prison, jail, parole or probation on any given day. In a state with 14 million adults, this meant that 5% of adult Texans, or 1 out of every 20, are under some form of criminal justice supervision. The scale of what is happening in Texas is so huge, it is difficult to contrast the size of its criminal justice systems to the other states' systems it dwarfs:
There are more Texans under criminal justice control than the entire populations of some states, including Vermont, Wyoming and Alaska.
According to Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates, one quarter of the nation's parole and probationers are in Texas. California and Texas, together, comprise half the nation's parolees and probationers.14
The number of people incarcerated in Texas (in prison or jail) reached 207,526 in mid-year 1999. Only California, with 10 million more citizens, has more people in both prison and jail.
Texas has a rate of 1,035 people behind bars for every 100,000 in the population,15 the second highest incarceration rate in the nation (second only to Louisiana). If Texas was a nation separate from the United States, it would have the world's highest incarceration rate--significantly higher than the United States (682), and Russia (685) which has 1 million prisoners, the world's third biggest prison system. Texas' incarceration rate is also higher than China (115), which has the world's second largest prison population (1.4 million prisoners).16
If the US shared the incarceration rate of Texas, there would be nearly three million Americans behind bars (2,822,300)--instead of our current 2 million prisoners.
The Texas prison population tripled since 1990, and rose 61.5% in the last five years of this decade alone. In 1994, there were 92, 669 prisoners in Texas. This number had increased to 149,684 by mid-year 1999.17
The Texas correctional system has grown so large that in July 2000, corrections officials ran out of six digit numbers to assign inmates, and officially created prisoner number 1,000,000.18

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http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm#inmates this is the governments own account of drug offender statistics. While it is possibly reliable (skewed no doubt to minimize government barbarity), it is notable that the last study of drug felons as a percentage of all inmates goes back to 1994. Even the little info here contained says drug offenders, "up 37%, represented the largest source of jail population growth between 1996 and 2002. " These old numbers say only 21% of the federal prison population are dope felons (and it's more now, they just won't say how much more). For jail inmates they don't even bother to break it down stating simply, "Half of jail inmates in 2002 were held for a violent or drug offense, almost unchanged from 1996. " You will notice the bias created by associating drug possession with violent crime. This trick has always worked to sell the drug war to the public. When you read it a few times you begin to see drug possession as VIOLENT CRIME. In fact arrest records will state whether the inmate was brought in for violent crime or possession. Linking them in this way is pure propaganda. Don't they sell it real good with that last bit? "almost unchanged from 1996." Of course going up 37% is a slight change.

USA Evil Empire: Bar Graph for World Incarceration Rates

More people locked up; 30-40% for simple possession

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