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| Crowded jails get top billing at budget review |
| By The Houston Chronicle |
| Published: 09/28/2006 |
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HARRIS COUNTY, TX - The county may spend at least $260 million to build jails and juvenile-detention facilities as it tries to address state agencies' criticisms that its jails are overcrowded. Commissioners Court gave an initial green light Tuesday to building a $245 million adult-inmate-processing center downtown, a $22.5 million adult jail for low-level offenders in Atascocita and possibly an adjacent juvenile-detention facility at that location in far northeast Harris County. The city of Houston would contribute $32 million toward the inmate-processing center, in exchange for the county's agreement to process most suspects arrested by Houston police. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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