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Amarillo boosters launch premature defense of prison pork

The Amarillo Globe News on Sunday published an odd little journalistic trot down memory lane recounting the 20th anniversary of a behind-the-scenes lobby effort to secure TDCJ's Clements and Neal units in the Amarillo area. But it wasn't until Rev. Charles Kiker sent me a link to this editorial from the Globe-News that I understood the purpose of this rather mundane, non-news in the Sunday paper. Their editorial board opined:Texas state government is having some budget difficulties, considering how to erase a projected deficit that could total as much as $17 billion. One idea on the table is the state's enormous prison system, specifically whether to close some corrections units. It's worth noting that the William J. Clements Jr. Unit in Amarillo has just turned 20...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).