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TDCJ regional release facilities announced soon, but state jails already send offenders straight home

An announcement will be made in a couple of weeks, according to the Abilene Reporter-News, which TDCJ facilities will become "regional release" facilities, a move spurred in large part by high gas prices a couple of years back. Presently TDCJ prison inmates are all released from Huntsville. However, the article also points out an exception to that practice that's been going on for some time:According to TDCJ, last year there were 72,000 prisoners released in Texas. Of those, about 30,000 were released from drug programs and state jails like those prisoners released from the Walker Sayle Unit in Breckenridge and the Havins Unit in Brownwood. ?Some released inmates from the Walker Sayle Unit (a substance abuse felony punishment facility in Breckenridge) have been brought by van to Abilene?s Greyhound bus terminal for release and transfer to their hometowns, for several years,? Bruce said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 22, 2010 (boomark / email).