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The Texas legislators push harder criminal punishments while the prison and prison population are increasing | News

Legislators in Texas push more than 100 notes to the clamp against crime and threaten to overfill the prisons and prisons of the state, the population of which has continued to grow after the immersion during pandemic.

Legislators have proposed at least 121 legislative templates to increase criminal sanctions by increasing either mandatory minimum penalty or by increasing the punishment, according to the lawyer of the Texas district and district lawyers. This non -profit organization has also pursued 90 invoices that would create new criminals and 96 invoices that would cause new offenses.

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