For five years, the mighty Harris County Jail in Houston and the mundane LaSalle Correctional Center, 238 miles away in Louisiana, carried on a long-distance relationship built on mutual dependency. The Texas jail, the third-largest in the United States after those in Chicago and Los Angeles, was bursting at the seams. It had the federal Justice Department looking over its shoulder, and it was under enormous pressure to reduce overcrowding...FULL ARTICLE HERE
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