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But here he was, wearing the standard yuppie regalia of khakis, loafers, and tortoiseshell glasses, puffing appreciatively on a long cigar, and sipping at a single-malt Scotch while his dachshund yapped away in the back yard and two of his daughters appeared on the patio to hit up their dad for movie money. By all rights he should have been a basket case. Now it was March, and with news of scandal breaking all around him, his brief second career as a prison consultant was in shambles. That kind of crap.”Īs recently as last December, Collins had been the most powerful bureaucrat in Texas, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The issue of crime has become entertainment. “The goddam media did as much as anyone to build all those prisons because they fanned the flames of public hysteria. “And the media,” Collins declared as he leaned over the patio table at his suburban home just north of Houston, delivering the accusation with a martyr’s relish. Prosecutors, cops, politicians-all of them with a self-serving agenda. But instead, we’re just taking juveniles and feeding them directly into the system. We should’ve been interceding at an earlier age, dealing with these kids before they ever became crooks. “The public was absolutely hoodwinked into thinking that the only way the crime problem could ever be solved was prosecution and incarceration. “IT WAS THE STUPIDEST THING THE STATE of Texas has ever done,” Andy Collins said about his crowning achievement, his oversight of the greatest expansion of prison beds in the history of the free world.