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Blast from the past: "A sorry mess, indeed"

After I asked someone recently to tell me about "N-Group" prisons, they pointed me to a lengthy, 15-year old story from Texas Monthly by Robert Draper titled, "The Great Texas Prison Mess." I'm not sure I've seen it before but the article is well-named, giving a good perspective on the Ann Richards-era push for "the greatest expansion of prison beds in the history of the free world" and the immediate aftermath. From the lede:?IT WAS THE STUPIDEST THING THE STATE of Texas has ever done,? Andy Collins said about his crowning achievement, his oversight of the greatest expansion of prison beds in the history of the free world. ?The public was absolutely hoodwinked into thinking that the only way the crime problem could ever be solved was prosecution and incarceration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).