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I was out of pocket Friday, Saturday and Sunday for my job, which explains the blog's relative dormancy for the last several days. I'm too busy to write separately about all the interesting stuff that's come up since then, so here are several stories that deserve Grits readers' attention even if I don't have time to fully explore them:New jails going upBurnet County speculatively built a much larger jail than they need hoping to lease the rest as contract beds. Now they've found a source of prisoners: The state of Texas. "SAFPF (Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility) and ISF (Intermediate Sanctions Facility) programs will be offered at the new 587-bed facility when it accepts its first inmates April 1." Meanwhile, in Brownsville, Cameron County broke ground on a new 356 bed jail that will push the total number of jail beds oin the county over 1,000...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).