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Texas Uses Failed Private Prison to Hold Civilly Committed Sex Offenders
Loaded on Sept. 3, 2018
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2018, page 42
Filed under:
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Correct Care Solutions,
Totality of Conditions,
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Texas.
by Matt Clarke
In 2015, Texas converted its outpatient program for civilly committed sex offenders into a “tiered” treatment program, in which participants start out in a “total confinement facility” at twice the cost of the original program. The state awarded Correct Care Solutions a $24 million contract to provide ...
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