Community Justice Assistance Division (CJAD)

Bonita White
Director

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to help Texas communities protect the public, help rehabilitate offenders and serve the victims of those offenders. We do this by developing sound public policy that leads to effective, community-based programs and services.

TDCJ-CJAD Publishes 2008 Report on the Monitoring of Community Supervision Diversion Funds

This fourth annual report on the Monitoring of Community Supervision Diversion Funds found that felony revocations, and especially felony technical revocations, have gone down. At the same time, the felony direct probation population has risen by 12,865 probationers (157,914 probationers in FY2005 versus 170,779 probationers in FY2008).

Additional funding from the 79th and 80th Texas Legislatures has strengthened community supervision by reducing caseloads, increasing availability of substance abuse treatment options, reducing revocations to prison by utilizing progressive sanctions models, and providing more community supervision options for residential treatment and aftercare.

Additional Funding Provided by the Texas Legislature

79th Texas Legislature (2005)
Provided an additional $55.5 million per biennium intended to

reduce caseloads and
provide additional residential treatment beds

80th Texas Legislature (2007)
CSCD Operated

$32.3 million increase for 800 new Community Corrections Facility (CCF) beds
$10.0 million increase in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment
$10.0 million increase in Basic Supervision funding - an additional $7.5 million due to increase in population projections

TDCJ Operated

$63.1 million increase for 1,500 new Substance Abuse Felony Punishment (SAFP) treatment beds
$28.8 million increase for 1,400 new Intermediate Sanction Facility (ISF) beds (shared with parole)
$10.0 million increase for Mental Health treatment through Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI)

For more information on the diversion funding, please visit the evaluation criteria monitoring website which includes:

statistical information, both local and statewide, on each of the eight evaluation criteria established by TDCJ-CJAD to monitor these funds
reports on the monitoring and effectiveness of these funds, and
definition of each of the evaluation criteria

For More Information

Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Community Justice Assistance Division
209 W. 14th Street, Suite #400
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 305-9300

March 19, 2009