Operation Border Star (“Border Star”) is the latest in a succession of homeland security efforts implemented in Texas. In the 80th Regular Session, the Texas Legislature appropriated $110 million for border security efforts, calling for multi-agency collaboration to respond to violent crime, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism. This report examines the data reported by eleven of the almost 40 participating local law enforcement entities who were awarded $5 million through Operation Border Star during the latter half of 2007 and into 2008, and suggests more effective strategies to make Texans safer.
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This report assesses the implementation of two laws passed during the 81st Texas legislature related to the care and treatment of pregnant inmates in Texas county jails. HB 3653 banned the use of restraints on pregnant inmates during childbirth, and HB 3654 required Texas county jails to write and implement procedures for the care of pregnant inmates. Both laws went into effect on September 1, 2009.
The ACLU of Texas and the Texas Jail Project (TJP) monitored the implementation of these laws in the six largest county jails in Texas: Dallas, Travis, Tarrant, Harris, El Paso, and Bexar. The ACLU of Texas and TJP visited facilities, interviewed medical and correctional staff, and collected policies, procedures, and inmate grievances to assess how the laws affected the treatment of pregnant inmates in these counties.
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The imprisonment of human beings at record levels is both a moral failure and an economic one—especially at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to make ends meet and when state governments confront enormous fiscal crises. This report finds, however, that mass incarceration provides a gigantic windfall for one special interest group—the private prison industry—even as current incarceration levels harm the country as a whole. While the nation’s unprecedented rate of imprisonment deprives individuals of freedom, wrests loved ones from their families, and drains the resources of governments, communities, and taxpayers, the private prison industry reaps lucrative rewards. As the public good suffers from mass incarceration, private prison companies obtain more and more government dollars, and private prison executives at the leading companies rake in enormous compensation packages, in some cases totaling millions of dollars.
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