| These letters were received by Jimmy
Maulden, and passed on to me. We appreciate your contribution
Jimmy. You can tell by the way the letters are written that they
come from someone who knows the Red River County Jail and its operation.
Therefore the webmaster believes these letters to be authentic. He
knows from talking with jail employees that the Sheriff will fire a whistle
blower, as will any county official who finds one. This is the reason
these letters were submitted anonymously. I feel sorry for these
employees that have to contend with a job like theirs, and then have the
Sheriff not care enough about their health to ban smoking in the jail.
In Texas prisons, it is against the law to even carry tobacco into the
facility. There is no smoking in any Texas prison and it has been that
way for many years. I used to work on the telephone systems in the
State Prison's in West Texas. They are all non-smoking facilities.
Smoking was not even allowed in the parking lot in front of the prison.
The only place anyone could smoke was out on the side of the highway
completely off prison property. This is the truth folks, because I was
there, and I for sure know. Also, upon checking with the Hunt
County Jail Facilities, the Chief Jailer there stated that it costs their
jail $23.76 per day to house a federal inmate, and that does not include the
cost of the building but does include everything else. We do not know
how much it costs here but after some calculations, we found that the county
only has about $8,000.00 left over each month if they are spending what Hunt
County is per inmate. I would bet that the statement Sheriff Reed made
about paying for the County Employees Health Insurance is not quite as
accurate as he would want us to believe.
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