Grayson Co. Commissioners to hear jail proposals

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Posted: 12:31 PM Sep 8, 2008
Last Updated: 1:08 PM Sep 8, 2008
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GRAYSON COUNTY, Tex. -- Grayson County Commissioners are requesting proposals from three different firms to build a new jail.

Corrections Corporations of America, Southwestern Correctional, and Community Corrections of America are all scheduled to give their plans for the facility.

The site in question is ninety-three acres off Baker Road and U.S. Highway 82.

Commissioners are also allowing ten minutes every week for public citizen input as long as necessary as they move forward potential private companies to build a new jail.

"They will sit down with our purchasing agent, with our sheriff, and they will start working up what they propose to build and what it would cost," Grayson County Commissioner Johnny Waldrip said.

The deadline to submit proposals is October 1.

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Posted by: Ralph Location: Denison on Sep 9, 2008 at 02:12 AM
Of course a private company is going to build the jail. County employees won't be out there hoisting steel and mortar. The real issue is whether or not the jail and its operations will be privatized. Judge Bynum and others have been going around the county talking about getting a private entity to build us a new jail at no cost to the taxpayer. They'd build it, and we would simply pay them a daily rate for each of our prisoners. The names of the companies listed in this story suggest these are private prison operators not just prison builders, and that in deed the privitization route has been chosen. The reported sit down between these companies, our purchasing agent, and the sheriff will involve discussions about "what they propose to build and what it would cost" suggests the concept of us having a privatized jail at no cost to the taxpayer was never a realistic claim.

Posted by: FYI Location: BRYAN COUNTY on Sep 8, 2008 at 03:35 PM
Listen uP David Whitlock; CCA does a good job, they feed, and take care of their prisoners well, their units look like a school building not a jail. I don't know about the other guys. Now, that I have got your attention; agreed this is a bit off subject; but David you the other Commissioners need to send Bill Sturch the $5,000.00 check for his Airborne Law Enforcement Unit, it is close to election and he needs to show that thing off to the citizens, and the dad blame thing is out of gas. BCSO

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