The Biggest Texas Private Prison Stories of 2007

Texas Prison Bidness gives us a link-rich account of the top five Texas private prison stories from 2007:

• Legislative actions on private prison regulation
• Local opposition growing to private prisons
• Scandals at GEO Group-owned facilities
• Lege hearings on expanding private prison oversight after closure of TYC's Coke County unit, and
• Controversy around and opposition to the Hutto family detention center housing immigration detainees in Williamson County

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