Harris jail overcrowding worse than reported
Via Solutions for Texas, the overincarceration crisis at the Harris
County Jail is worse than expected, the Houston Chronicle reported
last week.
Most of the overcrowding stems from judges and prosecutors choosing to
flaunt a relatively new 2003 law, using a loophole to incarcerate
low-level drug users in the county jail instead of putting them on
probation and getting them into treatment.
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