We need to be careful of buying into the propaganda. The media is serving up a new narrative about prison reform, and one of the willing darlings with his GOP face on it is Texas Governor Rick Perry. At the Conservative Political Action Conference two weekends ago, Texas Gov Rick Perry (who has overseen more executions than any other governor in American history) bragged, to confused applause, about Texas’s reduced prison population: “You want to talk about real conservative governance? Shut prisons down. Save that money.” Meanwhile, the state of Texas has been one of the leading private prison builders of the last 20 years! Just through the work of the Hale-Mills Construction Co., look at this list of projects dating back to the early 1990s- Jones County Intermediate Sanction Facility- Anson, TX, 2010 Jack Harwell Detention Center- Waco, TX, 2009 Fannin County Jail & Sheriffs Office- Bonham, TX, 2009 Garza County Law Enforcement Center- Post, TX, 2009 Burnet County Jail- Burnet, TX, 2009 Joe Corley Detention Center- Conroe, TX, 2008 Big Spring Special Housing Unit, Flightline Detention Facility Addition Big Spring, TX, 2008 Willacy County Processing Center- Raymondville, TX, 2008 Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility Expansion- Post, TX, 2008 Polk County Detention Center - Phase II Livingston, TX 2008 Maverick County Detention Facility- Eagle Pass, TX 2008 LaPorte Police Department- LaPorte, TX, 2007 Polk County Detention Center- Livingston, TX, 2006 Willacy 2,000 Bed ICE Facility County Processing Center- Raymondville, TX, 2006 Willacy County Jail- Raymondville, TX, 2005 Bailey County Regional Detention Center- Muleshoe, TX, 2004 Willacy County Sheriffs Office and Detention Center- Raymondville, TX, 2004 LaSalle County Regional Detention Center- Encinal, TX, 2004 Webb County Detention Center (Upgrade)- Laredo, TX, 2002 Pecos Municipal Criminal Justice Center- Pecos, TX, 2002 Hood County Regional Juvenile Detention Center- Granbury, TX 2002 Zapata County Regional Detention Center- Zapata, TX, 2002 Rolling Plains Regional Detention Center- Haskell, TX, 2002 Gregg County Detention- Longview, TX, 2000 Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility (Upgrades)- Post, TX, 2000 Garza County Regional Juvenile Detention Center (Addition)- Post, TX 2000 Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facilty- Post, TX, 2000 Garza County Juvenile Regional Detention Center- Post, TX, 1998 Winkler County Detention Center- Kermit, TX, 1995 Henderson County Jail- Athens, TX, 1995 Maverick County Jail- Eagle Pass, TX, 1990 Crystal City Correctional Center- Crystal City, TX, 1989 Since Rick Perry was only elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when then-governor George W. Bush resigned to become President of the United States, I wont put every construction project on this list on his name, but Perry was elected to full gubernatorial terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010... so- whats all this prison reform talk about?
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:37:56 +0000
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