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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jul 19, 2014, 02:42 PM Jul 2014

Dozens injured when prison roof collapses in Diboll, Texas

Multiple inmates at a private prison in East Texas have been injured after the facility's roof collapsed earlier this afternoon.

Authorities from Diboll, a city of about 5,000 nearly two hours east of Houston, said multiple people had been hurt, but did not have an exact number.

Local news reports claimed about 40 people had been injured and were being taken to area hospitals by helicopter and ambulance.

A cause of the collapse is not known.

The Diboll Correctional Center, which was established in 1995, can hold up to 518 people, sits on about 100 acres of land, employs more than 100 people.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Dozens-injured-when-prison-roof-collapses-in-E-5632932.php

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Dozens injured when prison roof collapses in Diboll, Texas (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2014 OP
Aren't we glad that our country is being privatized? WhiteTara Jul 2014 #1
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