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The Nation - News from April 22, 1987

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The Texas Department of Corrections has assigned sheriffs across the state quotas and schedules for delivering prisoners to the state prisons, officials said. The plan replaces the traditional open-door policy for accepting inmates and should put an end to the repeated closings and emergency inmate releases, for the time being, an aide to Gov. Bill Clements said. The system is under a federal court order to ease overcrowding.

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