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What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention System

Michael BARAJAS
By Michael Barajas
San Antonio Current | September 20, 2012
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
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