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Breakout! Burnet jail escape ill-timed for Grayson jail builders

In love and in politics, timing is often everything, and for jail builders in Grayson County, the timing of last week's jail break in Burnet County couldn't be worse.The Burnet County Jail is the only one in Texas currently operated by Southwestern Correctional LLC, which is based in Louisiana and operates eight facilities there (mostly for the state prison system) under the name La Salle Corrections. (Hundreds of inmates from the Harris County Jail diaspora ended up in a La Salle facility in Urania, La). They also manage a federal facility for immigration and US Marshall's service prisoners in Crystal City, TX.Grayson County Judge Drue Bynum and three other members of the commissioners court would like to hire Southwestern Correctional to run an oversized jail in Grayson County with an eye toward contracting out extra space to other jurisdictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).