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Pecos prison dreams up in smoke

There was a time not long ago when prisons in Texas were fallaciously promoted as engines for rural economic development, but that has turned out to be a failed experiment.Tom Barry at Border Lines has a couple of terrific posts implicating this phenomenon in reaction to the second riot in as many months protesting inadequate medical care at a private prison in Pecos, TX, housing immigrant detainees. Barry explains how the prison became more or less the only employer left in the county:In the early 1990s the town fathers envisioned another economic boom for Pecos. This time, though, not development dependent on nonrenewable resources -- water, oil, earth of the arid plains -- but on a resource that seemed to be ever rising in modern America...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).