Kenyan priest’s deportation highlights TDCJ’s need for immigrant guards in Texas prisons

“They are really operating on skeletal crews in many of the facilities. So, they've used many strategies to try to increase the workforce,” said Michele Deitch, a researcher and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs.  “And about 15 or so years ago, they started literally recruiting people from abroad to come and work here.”