Debt Dates: House Inmates and Employment Prospects

debt dates: To bring jobs and money, they built correctional centres with hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand beds that could be used to house inmates from other counties as well as prisoners for the state and federal governments, according to Metro News. In some cases, the strategy worked, at least for a while. The debt dates back to the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s, when some rural counties were losing employment prospects and population. But a decline in crime and an increase in alternative sentencing reduced the Texas prisoner population and created a glut of jail space. They can seek a federal contract to house some of the immigrants expected to be detained in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Now the debts, utility bills and maintenance are becoming so burdensome that counties are confronting a difficult choice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.