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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

 

First Days in the Texas Prison System – Part 3

In Part 2 we stopped at describing the living conditions in the Gurney Unit, which are basically the same as those at any of the intake units built during the prison expansion of the '80s when the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (then the TDC) built in the "pod" style. In this feature we will discuss the meals. The food in the TDCJ prisons is actually better than in the privately run prisons such as those run by CCA (Mineral Wells, Dawson, etc.) but is still well away from theRead More