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TX: Smith County Commissioners Call November Jail Bond Election

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Aug 15, 2008 Smith County Commissioners Call November Jail Bond Election Tyler TX Morning Telegraph By ROY MAYNARD Staff Writer Smith County commissioners on Thursday called a November election for a proposed $59.6 million jail bond proposal, but an opposition group filed its paperwork with the county clerk, asking 'What part of no don't you understand?"If approved by voters, the bonds would build 694 new beds in a jail tower adjacent to the existing downtown jail. Administrative offices would be built next to the new tower. The plan calls for keeping 708 existing jail beds.Voters rejected two bond propositions in 2006 and another in 2007."What people need to know is that we listened," said Commissioner Bill McGinnis. "This is the very best plan we could come up with, and the least expensive that will still get the job done...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 17, 2008 (boomark / email).