Prison plan changes overnight
BROWNFIELD – The proposal announced recently to re-open the city-owned Intermediate Sanction Facility (ISF) as a civil commitment facility to house violent sex offenders was retracted just hours after it was announced.
By Wednesday morning (Dec. 19), representatives of Management Training Corp. (MTC) informed city administrators that they would not move forward with the project.
However, all was not lost, as they proceeded to announce yet another possible use for the 275-bed ISF facility that has been vacant for 18 months after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice realigned its needs for transitional beds.
Ironically, the proposal MTC Vice President ...