Texas lawmakers in lockstep on juvenile-justice reform efforts Houston & Texas News Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
"AUSTIN — Every day, lawmakers entering the Texas House face a gantlet of advocates handing out "one-pagers" - flyers promoting or bashing the bills scheduled for debate that day - usually signed by several like-minded organizations.
The one-pager touting this year's reorganization of the Texas juvenile justice system, however, carried an endorsement by the strangest of political bedfellows this session: the liberal Texas Appleseed and the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Their joint endorsement blessed the latest milestone in a five-year transformation of the Texas criminal justice system, perhaps the one area in state government where the left and right have found common ground — in the shared belief that prisons cost too much and accomplish little.
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