AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year thanks to a legislative funding allocation, according to an email TDCJ spokesperson Monday.
The facilities are the Kyle Correctional Center in Hays County and the Gregory S. Coleman Unit in Caldwell County.
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“This legislative session, the funding was provided to TDCJ to assume operations of the Bradshaw, Bridgeport, Coleman, Kyle, Linsey, Moore, and Willacy Units. This means these facilities will no longer be privately operated,” said the spokesperson in an email.
On June 24, the private prison contractor Management & Training Corporation, or MTC, issued Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notifications (WARN) for the facilities. Those go into effect August 31.
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The WARN notices state that the Hays County facility will see 98 layoffs and the Caldwell County facility will see 135 layoffs. The majority of these layoffs were correctional officers…