"Efficacy and Impact: The Criminal Justice Response to Marijuana Policy in the United States" by Justice Policy Institute, August 2005

Austin/Travis County Reentry Roundtable Work Plan 2005-2006

New statewide public opinion poll: Texans want fewer nonviolent people behind bars!

Hearne drug task force case files

"An expensive way to make bad people worse" by Jens Soering, a conservative Christian perspective

"Race and Imprisonment in Texas: The Disparate Incarceration of Latinos and African Americans in the Lone Star State" by Justice Policy Institute, February 2005

Racial Profiling Report: Don't Mind if I Take A Look Do Ya? Consent Searches and Contraband Hit Rates at Texas Traffic Stops, February 2005

Re-Entry Policy Council report, a Council of State Governments Project, January 14, 2005

No Second Chance: "one strike" policies in public housing by Human Rights Watch, November 2004

Pro-Family Criminal Justice Policies by Texas LULAC, September 2004

Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System by the National Council of La Raza, September 2004

Justice Kennedy Commission final report on criminal sentencing by the American Bar Association, August 2004

The Diminishing Returns of Increased Incarceration by Dr. Tony Fabelo and Dr. James Austin at The JFA Institute, August 2004

Flawed Enforcement drug task force report by ACLU, May 2004

After Prison: Roadblocks to Reentry a 50-state report card by the Legal Action Center, April, 2004

Breaking the Chains Houston conference audio recordings, April 2004

Changing Fortunes or Changing Attitudes?: Sentencing and Corrections Reforms in 2003 by the Vera Institute of Justice, March 2004

American Bar Association Justice Kennedy Commission testimony by ACLU of Texas, February 2004

A Portrait of Prisoner Reentry in Texas by Urban Institute, January 2004

The Punishment Myth by Judge Dennis A. Challeen, 2003

The Challenges of Replacing Prison with Drug Treatment by the Vera Institute of Justice, September 2003

First-Ever Poll of Californias Latino Voters Dispels Myth That Majority Supports Hard-Line Drug Policies, July 2003

Latinos and the Texas Criminal Justice System by National Council for La Raza, July 2003

Texas Tough: Three Years Later by Justice Policy Institute, April 2003

Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Jorge Antonio Renaud, December 2002

Too Far Off Task drug task force report by ACLU, December 2002

Texas Tough by Justice Policy Institute, October 2000

Video -- Reentry Media Gallery by the Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign (short films, many filmed in Texas)

Audio -- Breaking the Chains: Communities of Color and the War on Drugs, Houston, April 2004 (Featuring Dean of the Texas Senate, Chairman John Whitmire)

Audio: "Texas deputy convicted of perjury in big drug case" January 14, 2005, NPR: All Things Considered

Progressive sanctions required to qualify for new probation funds

Texas Jail Diversion Programs

Legislative Budget Board (LBB) Criminal Justice Reports

"Strengthening Community Supervision" by TDCJ-CJAD

"Overview of Probation for the 79th Texas Legislature" by TDCJ-CJAD

Effective Prison Diversion Programs by CJAD

FUNDING: White House Faith Based and Community Initiatives for Ex-Offender and Substance Abusers

TDCJ GO KIDS initiative launched December 2004

Prison Population Projections by the Legislative Budget Board (LBB), June 2004

Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) web site

TDCJ Criminal Justice Assistance Division (CJAD) (a.k.a. adult probation) web site

"What Works" by TDCJ-CJAD

Drug Courts in Texas by TDCJ-CJAD, March 2003

Intermediate sanctions bench manual (sentencing options) by TDCJ-CJAD

Statewide survey of judges and CSCD (probation department) directors by TDCJ-CJAD

Felony probation revocation policy issues by CJPC

Technical violations report by TDCJ-CJAD Judicial Advisory Council

Adult probation/community supervision fact sheet by TDCJ-CJAD

Probation fact sheets, publications and legislative reports by TDCJ-CJAD

Criminal Justice Policy Council site (wealth of info. on TX criminal justice agencies, defunded 2003)

Governors Criminal Justice Division web site

Drug Demand Reduction Advisory Committee (DDRAC) report, January 2003