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Tyler paper editorializing for jail in news pages

A bizarre triplet of articles from the Tyler Morning Telegraph awaited me on my news feeds when I got back to the blog this morning after being away from the computer most of the weekend - bizarre because they all seem to overtly promote the jail the way an editorialist or blogger would, though they were portrayed to readers as news stories.Consider first this odd little feature in which a local historian "said little has changed as the county has grown during the last 152 years. More people means more incarceration, which in turn means more jails." So it's inevitable, like the sunrise - more people means a bigger jail. Simple, huh?Except that assessment is a fact-free bit of un-historical flotsam, entirely misrepresenting the sources of jail overcrowding in Smith County...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).