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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Pavan Acharya

Texas should close prisons and jails with staffing challenges, state oversight panel says

The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Livingston prison is where men on death row are housed, but they are executed at the prison in Huntsville, about 40 miles away.
The Polunsky Unit on Jan. 31, 2024. The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission recommended Wednesday for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to close some correctional facilities with staffing challenges. (Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune)

The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and do a better job at supervising inmate rehabilitation programs, the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission said Wednesday.

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