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Speculative Lubbock jail opens with no prisoners to fill it

On Wednesday, Lubbock County will celebrate the opening of a new 1,500 bed jail with a ribbon cutting, but county taxpayers might want to show up and turn the event into a good old fashioned tarring and feathering of all the elected officials responsible for this white elephant. (It may be the last time they can all be found in one place!) The jail has already been responsible for a significant tax hike, and if plans to fill extra beds with federal inmates don't come through - as seems likely given the recent experience in other counties - their taxes will soon rise even more because of this boondoggle.Stories in the Lubbock paper ("A decade in the works, Lubbock County Jail is ready for business," July 11) are filled with sanguine assessments, like rookie Sheriff Kelly Rowe who told the Avalanche Journal, ?Ultimately, this building is finished out just like we need it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).