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TX: Driving tour shows times have changed at suburban Houston prisons Development and traffic bring the public closer than ever.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Driving tour shows times have changed at suburban Houston prisons Development and traffic bring the public closer than ever. By Mike Ward Austin AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF April 24, 2010 RICHMOND ? In years past, motorists visiting one of the 10 maximum-security prisons scattered across the rich coastal tideland southwest of Houston probably would have been stopped and checked before they ever got to the front gate of the prison. Guards called the little shack by the side of the entry road the "highway gate." Dirt roads leading into the back of the prisons from Richmond and Sugar Land to Brazoria and Rosharon most often were blocked by gates, with large "No Trespassing" signs warning that you were on prison property. But in the decade since urban sprawl began surrounding some of those prisons, on prison farmland that was sold off chunk by chunk to make money for the state, the highway stops on most entrance roads are no longer staffed, except for special occasions...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).