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Private Prison Company Cleans Up Texas Creek, Finally Gets Prisoners
Loaded on May 15, 2009
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2009, page 32
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Louisiana Correctional Services,
Conditions of Confinement,
Toxic Fumes/Chemicals,
Environmental Law,
Sewage.
Location:
Texas.
In July 2008, Louisiana-based private prison company LCS Corrections Services agreed to remove junked cars, appliances and other debris inhibiting the flow of Petronila Creek, which runs close to LCS’s newly-built 1,100-bed Coastal Bend Detention Center near Robstown, Texas.
The company had applied to the Texas Commission ...
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