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Texas Taxes Spent on DCJ Luxuries
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1996, page 15
Cosmetic improvements were made on a state-owned house in Huntsville - home of a Texas prison official - at public expense. The house is one of the 870 prison houses that the state owns and provides for Texas Department of Criminal Justice executives and employees. The house was occupied by ...
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