A Jeffersonian In East Texas

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Smith County Jail | Build it and they will come!

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Nature abhors a vacuum. So does the Smith county justice system! If there is ever an empty bed in the Smith county detention facility, someone will be arrested to fill it! If you build a “jailhouse lite” version, it will fill quickly. If you build a 2000 bed facility, people will be arrested for spitting on the sidewalk!

The newest proposal is precisely what I expected, a “jailzilla lite” with an open end. A few scoops of dirt removed from what will become a bottomless pit for tax dollars and the hundreds of potential inmates working and playing and living and breathing in this county.

Written by A Jeffersonian

August 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

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