Texas prison

I wanted to get a picture of a prison tower with a guard in it. We lucked out at driving up when a guard was delivering something to the tower guard. He is just now lifting the bag up. This was at the Holiday Unit.

One private prison company alone, the Corrections Corporation of America, today runs the country’s fifth-largest prison system, after those of the federal government and the three biggest states. The less money such corporations spend on staff training, food, education, medical care, and rehabilitation, the more profits they make. States, at least in theory, have a financial incentive to reduce recidivism, but for private prisons, recidivism produces what every business wants: returning…

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From our friends over at Grits for Breakfast Blog: Coupla news items caught my eye related to budget cuts at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. First, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman, six prison industry factories including a soap factory formerly at the Central Unit in Sugar Land have been closed because of budget cutbacks. Wrote Ward: The closures are part of a national trend, officials say, as government agencies that run prison industry programs experience budget cuts…

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While serving a prison sentence is not meant to be luxurious, some prisons are equipped with simple inmate privileges such as access to recreation fields, gyms, sports equipment and hearty meals. The prison lifestyle is also not meant to be torturous, however, with conditions below those of human concern. There are a number of reasons …