- Jury awards $2.25 million to family of man who died at LCS' Brooks County Detention Center
- Study: As Liberty County reduces jail population, ending privatization saves money (see a related, recent Grits post)
- Sexual abuse allegations at CEC's Liberty County Jail
- Deaths at Dawson State Jail investigated by Dallas news station
- Sixth escape at halfway house operated by the GEO Group
- GEO Group employees at Laredo Detention Center plead guilty to gun running
See Mark Bennett and Murray Newman dissecting Harris County judicial election outcomes.
11/17/2012 Texarkana Gazette CEC Terminates Agreement With Bowie County
ReplyDeleteAugust 2012 US Marshals removed federal inamtes from the county jail and are now housing at Gregg County. Costing Bowie County $6100per day in revenue.
Harris Coounty inmates removed in 2011 costing the county 1.6 million annually.
Bowie County lost $4 million last fiscal year on the jail with about $2 million in income and $6 million in expenses.
Cell phones, escapes, etc. not mentioned in the story as reason Check it out.
Layoffs expected.