SAN ANGELO, Texas, May 15 (UPI) -- A privately operated prison to be run by employees with "a Christian world view" is on the drawing board in a Texas county.
The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports that the commissioners in Tom Green County in West Texas have authorized construction of the Christian jail.
But a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told the newspaper that the state has no plans to send any inmates from its overcrowded prisons to such an institution.
County officials hope to fill the prison with inmates from other states, suggesting that they could volunteer to serve the last two years of their sentences in the prison. They also believe that using bond proceeds instead of tax revenues for construction will avert a constitutional challenge.
