Harris County may pay $25M to house jail inmates at West Texas lockup

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stands at a podium at the county jail

Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday will consider a $25 million agreement to send jail inmates to the Giles Dalby Correctional Facility, a prison located in Post, a small Texas city near Lubbock. In January, the county shipped hundreds of inmates to a facility in Louisiana. Now, the county could approve an agreement to send inmates to an additional facility 475 miles away from Houston.

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