Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Review : 2019 Page: 3
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Mission
The mission of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is to provide public safety, promote positive
change in offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society and assist victims of crime.
Philosophy
The Department will be open, ethical and accountable to our fellow citizens and work cooperatively
with other public and private entities. We will foster a quality working environment free of bias and
respectful of each individual. Our programs will provide a continuum of services consistent with
contemporary standards to confine, supervise and treat criminal offenders in an innovative, cost-
effective and efficient manner.
Goals
- To provide diversions to traditional incarceration through the use of community supervision and
other community-based programs.
- To provide for confinement, supervision, rehabilitation and reintegration of adult felons.
- To ensure that there are adequate housing and support facilities for convicted felons during
confinement.
- To provide a comprehensive continuity of care system for special needs offenders through
statewide collaboration and coordination.
- To provide supervision and administer the range of options and sanctions available for felons'
reintegration back into society following release from confinement.
- To establish and carry out policies governing purchase and public work contracting that foster
meaningful and substantive inclusion of historically underutilized businesses.Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Annual Review Fiscal Year 2019
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