Texas Private Prisons Map

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In 1993 The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations produced a report that reviewed the international human rights norms deemed relevant to the issue of prison privatization. The author, Claire Palley, concluded that international standards require that prisons must be directly operated by public officials.

Sat, 07/14/2007 - 10:43 — Kathleen

Map of Texas Showing Private Prisons as of May 2007

According to research by our allies at the Private Corrections Institute, as of May, 2007, eight private prison corporations were operating over 47,000 prison beds in Texas. These include lock-ups operated by private prison corporations that are serving as:

Local county jails
Prisons holding Texans under Texas Department of Criminal Justice contracts
Prisons holding people under contracts from other state systems
Prisons holding people under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Pretrial detention centers under contract with the US Marshals Service
Immigration detention centers under contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency
Youth prisons
Pre-release or halfway houses
Prisons holding people under contracts from a mix of local, state or federal agencies.

The map does not include lockups that are publicly run (by the state, county, or federal government) or any lockups run by nonprofits.

You can mouse over any dot on the map to see which private prison(s) the dot represents. Each of the eight corporations has its own color on the map:

Company Name	Color on map
Civigenics	Purple
Cornell Companies	Gold
Corrections Corporation of America	Dark Green
Emerald Companies	Light Green
Youth Services Incorporated	Black
Louisiana Correctional Services	Pink
Management and Training Corporation	Light Blue
The GEO Group	Dark Blue

Are you surprised by what you see? Do you think this is a good idea? Think we missed any private for-profit prisons? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Mon, 02/25/2008 - 15:35 — 1776resister

Prisons in Texas

Seems to me the prisons follow the NAFTA trans-texas mega highway. that should work for them, huh?

Sat, 03/07/2009 - 05:53 — sharoo (not verified)

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Tue, 07/14/2009 - 05:18 — Anonymous (not verified)

Private Prisons in Texas

Yes, it cost alot to run a prison, so in order to deflect the cost from the taxpayers (you, hopefully), the alow private companies to run prisons in Texas, and all over America.

Sat, 11/14/2009 - 10:06 — Tom (not verified)

Private prisons do not save

Private prisons do not save money. TDCJ gets the same amount of money and then they contract out to the private prisons that provide meager care to the inmates. TDCJ will never ask for less money for their budget, no agency will do that. Wake up. TDCJ then takes the savings and squanders it on some scam that they run. The is a large amount of waste and thievery from prison officials and guards. Somebody needs to check them out. The prison system is an idustry of human cattle. You have over 50, 000+ people locked up for non violent drug and alcohol abuse that should receive rehab instead of being locked up like animals.

Sun, 07/26/2009 - 19:08 — laura (not verified)

zavala prision

Hi, I am trying to find info in the Zavala prision in Crystal City. I can not find anything. What type of prision is this? Is there any other info someone can share with me. Thank you.

Tue, 11/17/2009 - 21:24 — Bob

Crystal City jail

The jail in Crystal City is operated by LaSalle Corrections/Southwestern Correctional. I believe that it holds federal detainees for the US Marshals, though I haven't seen anything on it lately. Information from LaSalle's website on the facility can be found here - http://www.lasallecorrections.com/pages/locations/location-TX-crystalcit...

Thu, 07/30/2009 - 02:37 — Chris Tremblay (not verified)

problems

The largest problem with all these private prisons is they then lobby the government for stiffer penalties, a wider net, and no rehabilitation. It's in the interest of their business to get as many as possible, keep them there as long as possible, and make sure they come back if they get out.

Mon, 08/10/2009 - 21:48 — marlie (not verified)

prisons cost

Well for one thing yes it cost money but not as much as they may lead others to believe, for example, the kitchen, outdoor rec, cleaning, yard and etc are all done by the inmates the guards are only babysitters.

The commonsary is also ran by inmates and the prices are over price at least 100% which pays for several things in the prison.

Heck you'd be surprized on the feds income running the prisons, the materials are made by prisoners, the uniforms also made, they have 411 service that pays the inmate up to 1.00 a hour but in order to get that 1.00 one has to be almost perfect no drop calls no long time while looking up the numbers, oh the prisons gets at least 10.00 a hour per person to do this so in all it's al profit with litttle money cost to run the prison,

Oh BTW people the prison also gets to file income taxes so they do get lots of money back, which means even less to run the prison

For federal prisons specially Carswell fort worth texas, well they give tylenonl and the generic to those who really need pain medication it's like take a ibrophen.

There is black mold in the hospital rooms and even in the high rise. So if one goes in realively healthy they'll have something wrong with them when they get out.

So please think again before you think that it cost alot to run these prisons for it really doesn't.

I know of several people who is in Carswell when they really shoudn't be in the system all because they didn't plead guilty, also at least 35% are in the system for crossing illeagally.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 09:03 — Anonymous (not verified)

Half Way Housing Houston, TX

Does anyone know how to find a list of possible addresses/phone numbers for half-way (prison release) in Houston, TX?

Tue, 01/19/2010 - 20:00 — Ron R. (not verified)

I never really knew there

I never really knew there were this many private prisons in Texas - I must imagine that many of them also fill up too. Never really thought about the expenses of all these, when the highest paid inmates are only making $1 and hour and are getting some good labor out of them.

Ron

Sat, 02/06/2010 - 13:07 — Anonymous (not verified)

Check around,bet CEC is in a

Check around,bet CEC is in a financial bind now,putting the cart before the horse. Already complaints from jails/prison security and medical employees and inmates - everyone in a uproar. Some of CEC's people in corporate do not know how the system runs and it is obvious they don't care, layoffs from security to medical employees. BOP needs to listen to the complaints from employees to inmates before something else bad happens.

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 16:03 — Lars (not verified)

I'd like to see...

Some metrics comparing the efficacy of private vs. public prisons. I would wager there is significant corruption and waste in both, but probably of different sorts.

Lars
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