In case you missed it, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says it needs to build three more prisons at a cost of around a half billion dollars to solve prison overcrowding.
That's your money. And, in a few more years, they'll just come back for more.
And on a related criminal justice news, this blog points out that our efforts to outlaw homemade meth - by such brainchilds as requiring us to jump through hoops to get some Advil at Walmart- hasn't curtailed meth use at all. The result is now we import it from Mexico, where it is more pure (hence the term "ice"), and fund a bunch of crazed Mexican drug lords at the same time. Good times.
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9.26.2006
Criminal Justice Rant
In case you missed it, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice says it needs to build three more prisons at a cost of around a half billion dollars to solve prison overcrowding.
That's your money. And, in a few more years, they'll just come back for more.
And on a related criminal justice news, this blog points out that our efforts to outlaw homemade meth - by such brainchilds as requiring us to jump through hoops to get some Advil at Walmart- hasn't curtailed meth use at all. The result is now we import it from Mexico, where it is more pure (hence the term "ice"), and fund a bunch of crazed Mexican drug lords at the same time. Good times.
