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Tuesday, Augiigj fillga| Ve feel like there’s no(|t; ic cun come in here anti .is the experience plus® mt skill that will re! team,” Jones' said bit as much aboutv s to the table. Larrimoii about $500, Dallas. impo said Larrimorete :h to be the opening-daw isisted that the mpvewi tion on the rookie J not say who would berr site McNeil on the com t's a business decision,k orried about any of tint' more, a fourth-roundpid est Texas. “I’m stilloit and just have to contirat r.” uesday, August 29, 2000 STATE THE BATTALION Page 3B Texas leads U.S. states in arrests WASHINGTON (AP) — If J 1 rf exas were a separate country, it COTLCICIVV dtli b® P utt ing a percentage of its / M jopulation behind bars faster than my other nation, according to a tudy being released Monday. The report by Justice Policy Insti- ute, which supports alternatives to arison, showed that the Texas prison uopulation’s annual growth rate was il.8 percent during the ’90s, which > lv ’ l “'' luul 'r' mean t it added one in every five in- e numbers or snaps nets t J t „ ^ mates to the nation s prisons. > gc anyway. “If Texas were a country, it would ) make room on the.'.- i lU , • , , ■ ;• . ,, r- u • rave the highest incarceration rate in r. ihe Cowboy w ® |e wor , d B easi|y surpassing , he llls 01 allc United States and Russia, the next two finishers, and seven times that of the next biggest prison system in New Orleans in ano that sent cornerbacU is to the Saints. Spai-j ° r ,. „ ,. , t • • • , ‘i China, according to an Institute million signing bonus® ,. ’ • , A b * statement issued Monday. The study report stated that Texas imprisoned people at a faster rate [nan any other state in the last decade, but its crime rate is higher than other large states with smaller prison populations. In fact, the state’s crime rate fell at half the na tional average and the least of any of the nation’s five largest states, the re port stated. A Texas prison official said the 1st decade’s growth was a response to a prison revolving door during overcrowded conditions, and the state’s incarceration rate slowed in , «the latter part of the decade. \rf\ A O -fl/M The study’s authors zeroed in on IVC JlVa UvlfTexas’ prison system after the Bureau A Bof Justice reported earl ier this year that t time out sine? iree first-place votesand 4 Wisconsin andNoJM; d one first-place vote,._ easons Thursday night' Michigan, while followed by No. TTexi Kansas State, No.9Flori ■ opened with a 27-7 son Classic, had its game againstGs lent thunderstorms and [Fires still blaze but lull slightly HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Belea guered firefighters in Montana en- ved bv Na 12 USc”(up|j o y ed somethin g of a lul1 in their bat - 1 tie against dozens of wildfires, although a new blaze broke out near Yellowstone National Park and forced the evacuation of up to 150 homes. There were concerns the entire town of Red Lodge, a resort com munity in south-central Montana, nnnJ Mght have to be evacuated in the consecutive poll appet l b r , . i • i etnJLsii face of the blaze, which was pushed by Florida State s Is- , . , ’ . ^ F u ™ lalong by winds expected to reach 30 mph overnight. “We’re constantly reevaluating whether there will be a need to evac uate the town,” population 1,875, a Forest Service official said Sunday. No other major flare-ups were re- e. No. 14 Washington.) :ate. No. 17 ClemsonJ ahoma and No. 20TCI’ followed by No. 22S«di orado, No. 24 MichijaaS 1 new team in the poll,of y- freshman will add muclt ed depth. st Texas suffered a big in} :r in preseason. :xas has a lot of firepowa : lineup to live up to theI) is Texas A&M failed toll' 1 Top-10 bidding lastsetf s will likely fall as [h it may not happen uni i later in the season. )th teams have what it tight end Bo Scaifewasl r) 0rtec j s unc i a y i n state, where more than 10,000 firefighters ivorked to combat 23 wildfires that ig Pizzas ick-up nd • A/C Repair Diagnostics & R rvice $ 24 95 s/Batteries TOO SMALL! the Texas prison population of 163,190 had surpassed California’s, 163,067. California’s population of 32 million is almost twice that of Texas. “The sheer magnitude of what is going on in Texas alone is startling,” said Jason Ziedenberg, the study’s co-author. “We're obviously concerned about the state that's re sponsible for one- fifth of all neve prisoners between 1990 and 1999.” — Jason Ziedenberg Co-author of Justice Policy Institute STudy “Not just that it surpassed Cali fornia, but if you look at it in the context of a state like New York with a million or so fewer citizens, they (Texas) have got double the amount of people behind bars. ... We’re obviously concerned about the state that’s responsible for one- fifth of all new prisoners between 1990 and 1999.” The Justice Policy Institute is a think tank of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, and the study was paid for with a grant from the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture. The groups provide pro grams for families of inmates and look,for other solutions to criminal behavior beyond prisons, such as substance abuse treatment. The study comes as Texas prison officials are pressing for money to build more lockups and as the in mate population is closing in on the system’s capacity. Earlier this month, Tony Fabelo, executive director of the state Crim inal Justice Policy Council, told elected officials that, without a change in parole rates and policies for returning parole violators to prison, Texas will likely need pris ons to hold 14,600 additional in mates by August 2005. On Friday, Fabelo said Texas’ rapid incarceration occunsed when the state went on a prison-building binge. Before that, the state inter mittently released inmates to relieve overcrowding and comply with court-mandated capacity levels. “Texas is a very large state with a growing population. In the 1980s, we had a broken system with a backlog,” Fabelo said. “A great deal of the incarceration has been deal ing with the revolving door.” Fabelo said that while the incar ceration rate grew by 12 percent from 1990-95, it was 6 percent dur ing 1996-98. j» jpr m WJT I Y-i-} , 1 - V* :M. 'if A s *n2 MSC OPAS has made it easier than ever for students to purchase season tickets to the best performances in the Brazos Valley. Just choose fee option *23 when you register for your classes. For $150, you'll receive a ticket for each of six performanc es of your choosing. Pick up your ticket selection form at the Opas office, 223 MSC, or the MSC Box office, lobby of Rudder Tower. For further information contact OPAS at 845-1661. 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But til . not be known untl1 Monday morning e one team’s bidtobefcf when officials get their next look at ; 5 est w j]i en( j * aerial infrared photos that accurate- p ly map the fires’ boundaries at night. “I have a feeling that we’ll dis cover that some of the fires have in- Ireased dramatically,” said E.Lynn Burkett of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. “There’s so many elements out there working against us — steep canyons, winds that make fires run.” . Hundreds of soldiers from Fort Sdays ^ ood Central Texas have been ‘ helping to cut a fire line in advance of the 41,000-acre Burgdorf Junction blaze at Payette National Forest in fentral Idaho. But soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division were scheduled to return ! 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