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Texas Dept of CJ begins screening immigrant prisoners in trial run of nationwide Department of Homeland Security program

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmate screening put to test in Texas By STEWART M. POWELL WASHINGTON BUREAU May 25, 2009 WASHINGTON ? Texas prisons are test-driving the Obama administration?s planned nationwide immigration screening and are relaying for the first time the digital fingerprints of roughly 1,500 arriving inmates each week to the Department of Homeland Security. The statewide screening at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice?s 24 facilities will likely extend to the nation?s 1,200 state and federal prisons and 3,100 local jails during President Barack Obama?s first term ? all part of a high profile crackdown on criminal aliens who have committed serious crimes such as major drug offenses, murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping while living illegally inside the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).