41.   One new prison, the Holliday Unit near Huntsville, opened last year with a no-smoking rule and cessation assistance.

42.   Pataki said that many other states house maximum-security prisoners two to a cell and that it can be perfectly safe if the state builds new prisons with larger cells.

43.   Prisoners said they would be isolated and more vulnerable to abuse by guards in the new prisons.

44.   Prison inmates started a hunger strike last year to protest plans to move them to new prisons with single-person and three-person cells.

45.   Republicans worry about increasing taxes to pay for the new prisons and Democrats argue that the program has taken money away from the state college and university system.

46.   Ratliff, chairman of the budget writing Senate Finance Committee, doubts that the state can afford new prisons given other budget priorities.

47.   Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas, and Republican U.S. Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Phil Gramm of Texas were instrumental in passing the new federal prison law.

48.   School systems deteriorate while tax dollars build new prisons.

49.   She was protesting new prison construction.

50.   So violent criminals -- the rapists and carjackers and others who make this a fearful society -- could be held longer without the need to build expensive new prisons.