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TX: Proposals Could Make It Harder to Leave Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Proposals Could Make It Harder to Leave Prison By BRANDI GRISSOM Published: March 12, 2011 The Texas Tribune Danny Bell sat on a brick ledge outside the plain, beige Greyhound station a block from the prison complex in Huntsville and, from behind dark shades, soaked in the sights and sounds of a world he had not seen in more than two decades. Mr. Bell spent 21 years in prison for murder, the result of ?a youth of ignorance,? he said. He was arrested in 1989 at age 24 and left prison March 4 at age 45 with $100 in his pocket and a bus ticket to Dallas to see his favorite girl: his grandmother. ?She ain?t gonna let me out of her sight,? Mr. Bell said, flashing a wide smile with one missing front tooth and another capped in gold, with a star cutout in the center...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 13, 2011 (boomark / email).