21.   The state paid Harris County less to house the prison-bound felons than it did for housing and rehabilitating the non-violent state jail offenders.

22.   The Travis County state jail is not the only Wackenhut-run facility in Texas, where allegations of sexual misconduct between guards and inmates have arisen.

23.   They also started shutting their doors to prisoners from already crowded county jails, which hold people awaiting trial and destined for a state jail.

24.   Those will include traditional prisons as well as drug treatment facilities and a new system of state jails for most property and drug offenders.

25.   When juveniles are convicted and sentenced by federal courts, they are sent to state juvenile jails under contract to the bureau.

26.   His possible state jail term ranged from six months to two years.

27.   In most cases, outbursts are caused by overcrowding and the slow process to move the state jail population to prisons with more space.

28.   Authorities Tuesday delivered nine cars to the Goias state jail.

29.   Rioting inmates who held authorities hostage in a tense weeklong standoff fled a dilapidated state jail Wednesday with one hostage in each of eight cars as human shields.