Texas Southern University receives $600K to study prosecutors' offices, including Fort Bend and Dallas
Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
The project – funded by Houston-based policy research and advocacy group Arnold Ventures – tasks Texas Southern with tracking the outcomes of bail recommendations and the cost-benefit of pretrial diversion programs in five counties.Texas colleges see class sizes grow, despite bleak national trend of declining enrollment
“This project centers an interdisciplinary research team dedicated to rigorously studying prosecutor decision-making,” said Howard Henderson, founding director of the Center for Justice Research. “Through this work, we have the opportunity to provide evidence that will help prosecution better understand community-based alternatives to incarceration.”
Diversion programs are ones in which district attorneys use their discretion to route people away from the traditional court process. The programs usually involve a would-be defendant completing hours of coursework or other requirements to avoid arrest, jail booking. and the filing of a criminal charge.
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