Prison inmates manufacturing razor wire used at the Texas border - Caller Times
Prison inmates manufacturing razor wire used at the Texas border Show Caption Hide Caption Texas' Rio Grande buoys spark DOJ lawsuit, Gov. Greg Abbott responds The Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas after Governor Greg Abbott refused to remove a floating barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border. Ariana Triggs and Cody Godwin, USA TODAY AUSTIN — The tangled miles of razor wire strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande are being manufactured by inmates in a minimum-security prison unit in East Texas using equipment purchased with funds from Operation Lone Star. According to documents available through the Legislative Budget Board's contract online database, the authorization process for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to purchase nearly $1.1 million worth of equipment to make concertina razor wire and barbed wire began three weeks before Gov....