According to Texas Prison Bid’ness Ray Meadows is quoted “Electronic Monitoring can save the county $800,000.00 a year.” This with a dateline of Sep. 2007.
Meadows further says the county spends 1.2 million (that’s taxpayer dollars) housing prisoners with CEC due to overcrowding.
After Ray’s little plan was sidetracked by an Attorney General Opinion, taxpayers got to foot the bill for the law firm of Haley and Olson to petition State Senator Kip Averitt to pass S.B. 2340 to change the law and allow counties to implement electronic monitoring.
So today's question for Ray: Is your inability to implement electronic monitoring in more than two years due to your ineffectiveness as a commissioner or is it because you do not want to reduce the revenue of CEC whose affiliates are major campaign contributors?
In short, are taxpayers getting the shaft because he is ineffective or because he is corrupt?
Footnotes:
Jail Alternatives Can Save County Money Texas Prison Bid’ness 9/20/07
County officials are working on creating an electronic monitoring program after receiving the green light from a new state law. Waco Tribune Herald 7/15/09
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