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Post by crosstimbersokie on Jan 31, 2017 22:09:02 GMT -5
Is Coffield Unit TDCJ's largest prison?? If so, it's days may be numbered. The following link is a redio interview from today, with the Director of Oklahoma DOC. At about the 20 minute mark he talks about spending the weekend in Texas with TDCJ officials who told him that they were about to close the state's largest prison. link
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Coffield?
Feb 8, 2017 12:35:58 GMT -5
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Post by txbombshell on Feb 8, 2017 12:35:58 GMT -5
Beto is the largest, with about 5,000 inmates. It's also in Tennessee Colony, near Coffield. The Oklahoma guy was likely in San Antonio for the American Correctional Association Winter conference. I've not heard any rumblings about closing Beto...yet.
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Post by crosstimbersokie on Feb 8, 2017 20:23:23 GMT -5
You've heard it now. That Oklahoma guy was the director of the state prison system. At minute 20:25 he said that he was with the Texas Director last weekend who told him that they were about to close their largest facility very soon. That would have been January 27th or 28th.
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Post by mley1 on Feb 8, 2017 21:04:01 GMT -5
Anything is possible. However, I've not heard anything regarding the closing of either Coffield, or Beto. I doubt they'll be closing those units. I can see them closing the Sugarland units far sooner. The land there is much more valuable. Stranger things have happened though.
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Post by accussedsnitchgp11 on Feb 9, 2017 20:59:05 GMT -5
Anything is possible. However, I've not heard anything regarding the closing of either Coffield, or Beto. I doubt they'll be closing those units. I can see them closing the Sugarland units far sooner. The land there is much more valuable. Stranger things have happened though. Saw an Article about that... Already some Major Plans for Houses along the Interstate....Some one is gonna make some money off that land.
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Post by mley1 on Feb 10, 2017 1:25:13 GMT -5
You got a link? Or was it the article I read where ole Lance was theorizing?
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Post by crosstimbersokie on Feb 10, 2017 5:53:03 GMT -5
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Post by mley1 on Feb 10, 2017 11:11:44 GMT -5
OOOOHHHH Crosstimbersokie,,,,,,,,that's ole Lances piece theorizing based on some guesses he's making. So far NONE of it has come true. I thought maybe you had a viable news source that was accurate.
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Post by mley1 on Feb 10, 2017 11:18:21 GMT -5
And, here are comments from an anonymous poster that seem to support my conclusion on ole Lances speculation.
"This project was shelved months ago. Old news. TXDOT studied the I-14 Gulf Coast Strategic Highway and concluded that there was no justification to build a full freeway along US 190 through Texas because of low traffic projections to 2040. LaDOTD and MDOT both also projected traffic level to low to justify the highways. Although the Congress created the Interstate corridor, they never send any federal funds to build it. The low traffic and lack of possible funds are the reasons Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia dropped support for I-14. Finally, the AASHTO rejected TXDOT application to designate even the existing road in Killeen since they don't see this road ever being built within the next 25 years."
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