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Second prison closure planned this fiscal year

This is a good sign, via the Statesman's Mike Ward:State prison officials, their initial budget-cutting plans rejected by legislative leaders, have shuffled the deck and come up with a new proposal to cut more administrative jobs and close two prisons earlier than planned as a way to save $50 million. The revised plan, provided to Senate and House leaders yesterday, would lay off an additional 400 administrative workers at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and move up the planned closure of the 1,000-bed Central Unit near Sugar Land to sometime before Aug. 31. In addition, 500 beds at the 2,100-bed Mineral Wells Unit ? a private contract prison for convicts who are soon to be paroled ? would be closed by August. TDCJ still plans to eliminate some treatment capacity and Project RIO, the job assistance/reentry program, as part of its 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).