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TX Abolishes Furloughs
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 22
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) administratively abolished furloughs for prisoners on July 1, 1995. In doing so it acted three months before a recently enacted state law eliminated all the furloughs, effective September 1, 1995. Under the state law only emergency furloughs are allowed.The furloughs being abolished ...
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