Closing outlying youth lockups and creating community programs for offenders would save the state money and would modernize the juvenile justice system, said two criminal justice leaders who filed legislation to shutter the Texas Youth Commission and combine it with another agency. The House Corrections committee, lead by bill author Rep. Jerry Madden, R- Richardson , will hear the hefty bill Wednesday. Sen. John Whitmire, head of the Criminal Justice committee, will carry the legislation in the Senate.
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