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Inmate escapes from privately run pre-parole facility

Source: Associated Press (TX), Fri, Aug. 25, 2006

DALLAS - Search teams scanned the Mineral Wells area Friday after an inmate escaped from a privately run pre-parole transfer center near Lake Mineral Wells State Park. ...... The prison is operated for the TDCJ by Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America. Mineral Wells is about 45 miles west of Fort Worth.