EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS

We like to say everything is bigger in Texas. Bigger skies. Bigger stories. Bigger business. Bigger prison systems. Especially our prison systems. Texas is so legendary that the word itself has become slang in Norway. To Norwegians, “Texas” is a word that is included in everyday conversation.  eir phrase “Der var helt texas!” ( it was very, totally Texas!) describes any situation that is irrational, outrageous, and unmanageable, with anarchy in charge. Norway delights in cowboy movies, especially those  filmed in or depicting Texas so much that the name of the state has become a symbol of uncontrolled lawlessness, without restraint, according to Daniel Gusfre Ims, the head of the advisory service at the Language Council of Norway. & If they could watch movies based on the Texas prison complex there would be many more vocabularies involving the state.  The  first Texas prison opened with three reprobates detained in 1849. In 2021, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was supervising 133,772 incarcerated convicts.  at year there were 104 facilities, including 11 privately operated sites, located across the state. Texas has an all inclusive lock up rate of 840 per 100,000 people, meaning that it restrains a higher percentage of its...