Grits for Breakfast: Lege avoided $1 billion in new prisons

Grits for Breakfast: Lege avoided $1 billion in new prisons: "The Texas Legislature's rejection of most prison-sentence-increase bills this session staved off $1 billion in new prison spending by the end of the decade, the Statesman's Mike Ward reports.

Texas could have faced spending well over $1 billion for new prisons in five years had just 11 of the most significant enhancement bills passed. Operating costs would have run another $113.7 million."