State Representative Rafael Anchia says the governor's budget decisions created a shortage of prison guards which has resulted in more violent offenders being released with ankle monitors.
When Nestor Henandez was arrested by Carrollton police over the summer for cutting off his ankle monitor, the paroled violent offender served only 100 days behind bars before being fitted with a new one.
He was released instead of going back to prison to serve the remainder of his eight year sentence for aggravated robbery. "We have the jail capacity, what we don't have are prison guards, because we've raided the [Texas Department of Criminal Justice] funds in the legislature to pay for the governor's pet projects," Anchia said.That means there is room for more than 9,800 additional prisoners, according to numbers obtained by CBS 11 News.
"We don't pay our prison guards enough, because the governor has redirected this money to this border security stuff and that's why this guy was probably on an ankle monitor when he should've been in prison," he said.
We learned today that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is urgently working to trace the gun that was used. As for Hernandez, who's jailed and charged with capital murder, he isn't going anywhere without posting a bond of at least $6 million.
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