Texas Compound

About the Book

The penal system’s escalating growth is costing more and more money to support as time goes by. This book is both fact and fiction that will ease the dollar support and return the convict back into a competitive member of society. With an approximately two billion dollar budget in 1997 to keep incarcerated one hundred forty thousand inmates with a capacity of one hundred forty seven thousand beds, it is apparent that new facilities need to be provided. The cost and growth goes on. Let’s return these convicts to society better suited to fit in for less money. A system must be provided to let the inmate step back into society equal to his non-incarcerated peers. The fiction and facts between these two covers may be a way to achieve that goal.

About the Author

Wes Brent was born in Maine in 1924. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945. He then served in the United States Air Force from 1947 to 1951 at Langley Field, Virginia. In 1951 he began work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mr. Brent retired from NASA in 1980.