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