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| Prison officials: Agency policy requires thousands of vacant beds |
| By statesman.com - Mike Ward |
| Published: 02/14/2013 |
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TEXAS - A legislative push to reduce the number of vacant state prison beds took an unexpected turn Tuesday, with prison officials defending empty beds by citing a decades-old policy meant to ease crowding and lawmakers broaching the topic of buying even more beds in remote West Texas. “All options are on the table,” said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, who has been pushing to shutter two privately owned prisons — a pre-parole lockup in Mineral Wells and the Dawson State Jail in Dallas — to save about $80 million a year to pay for other corrections needs. Whitmire, whose committee oversees the prison system, said his research shows more than 10,800 beds are empty. Corrections chief Brad Livingston earlier put the number at about 4,300. Read More. |
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