1.   For that reason, she suggests, he has also underestimated the cost of prison expansion.

2.   He offers few plans to cut spending, saying the boom in Texas government revenue will help pay for prison expansion and more school aid.

3.   Huge outlays for prison expansion and large enrollment increases at higher education facilities also contributed to the increase, he said.

4.   One probable point of contention is prison expansion.

5.   The bill broadly defines how states can use the money to include police, prosecutors, courts and prison expansion.

6.   The inmate said that he hoped the judge would not abandon the case that triggered both reforms and the largest prison expansion in U.S. history.

7.   The Texas experience can be seen as a model or a cautionary tale for Massachusetts, which is preparing to embark on a major prison expansion of its own.

8.   The money would go toward prison expansion and improving waste water treatment facilities.