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Waiting on the Lege to solve county jail overcrowding?

McLennan County officials say they need "help from Austin" to solve their jail overcrowding problem, but don't own up to the role of their own local decisionmakers in causing and continuing the situation. An editorial from the Waco Tribune Herald ("State lawmakers need to help county jails with overcrowding," Feb. 23) begins:No matter how fervent you are about law and order, some people just don?t need to be taking up precious space in county jail, especially when it?s packed full and costing we the taxpayers to house them elsewhere. That?s good enough reason for state lawmakers to iron out legal impediments that keep officials like our sheriff from using electronic ankle monitors to keep track of nonviolent, low-risk offenders. McLennan County Judge Jim Lewis, who plans to meet with state Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).