(Continued from last week)
Our county jail as well as every county jail, along with TDCJ, is facing the rise in female offender housing.
According to The Texas Criminal Justice Journal, “The number of women in the U.S. prison system has grown by over 700% since 1980. This is significantly higher than the growth rate of the overall prison population, which has risen by around 500%.
Texas has one of th…
