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Hurricane Threat Forces Texas Prison Evacuations, Damage Worsens Overcrowding

Loaded on July 15, 2006 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News July, 2006, page 24
Filed under: Transfers, Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Shelter. Location: Texas.
As Rita churned westward through the Gulf of Mexico, at times a monstrous Category 5 hurricane with wind speeds of 175 mph, officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) ordered the evacuation of entire prisons in coastal and low-lying areas of Southeast Texas. More than 9,000 prisoners were …

 

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