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Texas plans to close 2 state prisons amid population decline

by Associated Press
| February 20, 2020 12:05 PM

DALLAS (AP) — Texas will close two of its more than 100 state prisons amid a yearslong decline in the incarcerated population and serious understaffing at some facilities, officials said Thursday.

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