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In what some enterprising capitalist thought was a neat idea, Houston's Federal Detention Center is no longer going to be used for pretrial detainees, but rather for people who have already been sentenced. In other words, instead of a detention center it's going to be a prison. Smack dab in the heart of downtown Houston.
This shouldn't come as any big shock to anyone who has watched our county government planting jails on prime downtown waterfront property. Where Bexar County San Antonio (Texas's next most populous city) has the Riverwalk, with restaurants, bars, and commerce, we have a monument to incarceration.