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The wish list, an empty, overbuilt jail, and the irony of short-sighted NIMBYism

A few blogworthy odds and ends:Law enforcement wish listLaw enforcement interests gathered in North Texas this week to hash out their collective legislative wish list.Jail pitched as paying for itself losing contractsAdd Dickens County to the list of places that overbuilt their local jails aiming to lease extra space for a profit, only to find taxpayers saddled with sizable debt for a mostly empty facility now that demand for beds is dropping.Can someone please audit metal detectors at juvie detention centers?A teenager somehow got a gun through intake at the juvenile detention facility in Tyler and opened fire on a juvenile detention officer (who thankfully escaped uninjured), an incident reminiscent of the one last year in Harris County where a juvenile got a gun through a metal detector and strip search at the juvenile detention facility there...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 26, 2010 (boomark / email).