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Prisons as water hogs: Private facility in Waco would use 2.5 million gallons per month when full

A helpful reader sent me a public notice recently from the Waco Tribune Herald announcing that "The US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) ... to assess the potential environmental impacts of contracting with a private contractor to house approximately 1,000 federal, low-security, adult male, non-US citizen, criminal aliens at a contractor-owned, contractor operated facility." They're assessing five sites, including two each in Texas and Louisiana: Beattyville, KY; Groesbeck, TX; Jonesboro, LA; Pine Prairie, LA, and Waco, TX, and are soliciting comments dues Feb. 28, 2011. I'd never seen an Environmental Assessment for a prison, so I asked for a copy and BOP graciously sent me one...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).