Detention center proposal off the table for Caldwell County, Texas
Overwhelming opposition met a proposal from Louisiana-based Emerald Correctional Management LLC for a $30 million, 1,000-bed facility that would be used to separately house men and women who had been detained as illegal immigrants.
According to one commissioner Joe Roland,
“the commissioners were told that funding would come from private sources and that the facility would bring in 200 to 225 jobs with an annual payroll of $4 to $5 million.”