On Occupational Licensing, Texas Is Again the ‘Lodestar State’ for Legal Reforms
8th February 2019
By reforming its criminal justice system, Texas has sensibly and carefully reduced its prison population, cut state spending, and expanded prisoners’ access to drug- and mental-health treatment and to education programs—all of which have reduced crime and recidivism rates and improved people’s lives.
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Now, Texas is once again leading on key issues by analyzing and reconsidering some of its laws that hinder Texans’ ability to pursue a livelihood, a right guaranteed to all Texans by both the state and federal constitutions. Many of those laws carry criminal penalties for those who violate them.