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1.5. Inadequate Discharge Planning- When people are released from <br />Factors public institutions or public systems of care without adequate discharge <br />Contributing to punning, they are more likely to become homeless, The populations <br />Chronic included in this category would be people discharged out of correctional <br />Nomelessnoss <br />institutions, hospitals, mental health institutions, and children aging out <br />of foster care, <br />Prisons- According to the Justice Policy Institute, which supports <br />alternatives to prison, the annual growth rate of Texas' prison population <br />was 11,8 percent during the 1990s, representing one in every five <br />inmates added to the nation's prisons, Texas' prison population of <br />163,190 had surpassed California's, 163,067. California's population of <br />32 million is almost twice that of Texas. According to the statistics from <br />the Urban Institute, anon-partisan economic and social policy research <br />organization, 58,949 prisoners were released from Texas prisons in <br />2002, nearly six times the number of prisoners released in 1980 <br />(10,636). <br />According to the results of Census Bureau National Survey of Homeless <br />Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) conducted in 1996, among <br />2,938 homeless clients in the survey, 49 percent reported having spent <br />five or more days in jail, 18 percent spent time in state or federal prison, <br />and 16 percent spent time in juvenile detention before 18 years of age. <br />In Texas, the population in correctional institutions increased from <br />94,257 to 244,363, an increase of over 159 percent. According to 2000 <br />U,S. Census, the population in correctional institutions in Corpus Christi <br />19 <br />