Houston-area prison to shut under budget proposal - Bloomberg: "HOUSTON (AP) — A more than century-old prison in suburban Houston would be closed this year under the proposed budget delivered to Texas lawmakers.
The estimated $31.1 million savings with the shuttering of the Central Unit in Sugar Land would be highly visible but only a tiny part of the some $459 million in cuts proposed for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The biggest hit, almost $224 million out of the proposed $5.4 billion budget for 2012 and 2013, is for cuts in inmate health care and monitoring costs, including a 14 percent reduction in psychiatric and pharmacy care expenses.
The agency had requested an overall $6.5 billion. In the last two-year budget, it received $6.2 billion, a figure that subsequently was trimmed slightly"
I saw about 4 of these closings feed through today. This one from Bloomberg.com Is this a trend?
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