To strengthen community supervision and reduce reliance on revocation to prison, the 79th Texas Legislature allocated almost $28 million per year in new diversion program funds to the Texas probation system.

• To qualify for the new funds, Texas probation departments must have a progressive sanctions model in place. 
• To qualify for new or old diversion program funds, Texas probation departments must submit specific data to a state tracking system so that probationers can be tracked for recidivism and evaluation of programming.

These are important steps that will make probation stronger.

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