AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Senate and House budget negotiators have tentatively agreed to close two privately run state prisons.
The Texas Board of Criminal Justice would decide which two prisons to shutter under Friday’s agreement, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
The Senate, in its budget plan, had targeted a 2,100-bed transfer facility in Mineral Wells and a 2,200-bed state jail in Dallas for closure. The House had allocated funding for each.