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Texas
Okays
More
Prison
Construction
11/23/97
Funding for two new high-security prisons and 20 new lesser- security
"dorms" was approved this week by the state of Texas. Total cost
for the facilities is estimated at $107 million. Texas, which has tripled
its prison capacity since 1992, to a total of 145,000 beds, expects its
system to be full, once again, by next April, according to the Houston
Chronicle, 11/18.
Jerry Epstein, president of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas, told The
Week Online, "Texas has increased its prison population 300% since
1992, giving Texas the highest known per capita incarceration rate in the
world. None of this has made Texas any safer than numerous other states
with far lower incarceration rates. The imprisonment of non-violent drug
offenders has siphoned off huge amounts of taxpayer dollars that could
have been spent far more productively on under-funded treatment and education
programs."
You can find the Drug Policy Forum of Texas on the web at http://www.mapinc.org/DPFT/.
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Issue #20, 11/23/97
Texas Okays More Prison Construction | NIH Panel Urges Loosening of Restrictions on Methadone | Study Shows that Early Onset of Drug Use Makes Addiction Harder to Break | Brazilian Rock Band Incarcerated for Improper Lyrics | Canadian Mounties Target Medical Marijuana | Six-Year-Old Suspended from School for Sharing Lemon Drops -- Authorities call in ambulance and fire department | BBC Taking Online Poll/Comments on Marijuana Legalization | Public Forum in Minneapolis Drug Policy Reform Legislation in Connecticut | Editorial: Giving Thanks in a Time of (Drug) War
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