AUSTIN, Texas — The tangled miles of razor wire strewn along the banks of the Rio Grande are being manufactured by inmates in a minimum-security prison unit in East Texas using equipment purchased with funds from Operation Lone Star.
According to documents available through the Legislative Budget Board’s contract online database, the authorization process for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to purchase nearly $1.1 million worth of equipment to make concertina razor wire and barbed wire began three weeks before Gov. Greg Abbott formally launched his signature border security initiative.
