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© 2017 The Brownfield News. All rights reserved. All items contained in this newspaper are property of the Brownfield News. MEMBER Texas Press Association 2017 Download for free in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store! (USPS 067-880) 75¢ 12 PAGES • PLUS SUPPLEMENT VOLUME 110, NO 25 SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 2017 88 (USPS 067-8 (USPS 067- BROWNFIELD NEWS www.brownfieldonline.com THE THE Please see HOUSTON...Page 4 CMYK Please see WEST TEXAS ISF...Page 4 Please see LANDFILL...Page 7 Local prison eyed for closure Brownfield’s city-owned Intermediate Sanction Facility finds itself on a shortlist of state prison facilities that could be closed or mothballed as legislators look for areas to slash expenses in the state budget currently under consideration. The move, first reported last week in the Houston Chronicle, would mark the largest such move in state his- tory -- closing as many prisons in the next year as the state has shuttered in the past five. Lepher Jenkins, Warden of the West Te
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