This is the case for several states, not just Texas. I have no idea why that might be the case for Texas, but sometimes it has to do with the way the state’s public forensic system is structured.
I can’t say for sure why my state only has one fellowship, but I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that the majority of the serious criminal forensic work happens at one of the state hospitals which my program is associated with. Basically anyone with serious charges like murder/attempted murder, rape/attempted rape, first degree assault, etc. is sent to our hospital. People with less serious crimes get distributed to various hospitals throughout the state. Given that we already have a relationship with the maximum security hospital, it would probably be difficult for another program to establish a way to get enough well-rounded criminal forensic exposure. This could be a problem not just in terms of exposure to a variety of cases with different types of charges. It could pose a problem for exposure to entire types of evaluations like criminal responsibility evaluations. Our hospital gets the bulk of those because, obviously, it makes a lot less sense to plead insanity for a relatively minor charge where you would probably spend more time in the hospital than in prison.
