Jail company to work on courthouse in West Texas

Ector County commissioners instructed building maintenance employees to seek help from Community Education Centers Inc. (CEC) on repairs to the sewage system in the courthouse, reported the Odessa American Online. This issue was first reported in March of 2016, when water and raw sewage began leaking from the ceilings underneath the county jail. This put many official documents at risk and created a very unpleasant work environment. 

CEC is the for-profit, private prison company that operates the jail  located in the Ector County courthouse. There is a smell of sewage in the county offices located underneath the jail that CEC operates. The plan to repair the sewage pipes would involve putting smoke inside the pipes and having CEC employees and building maintenance see where the smoke leaked so they could go about repairing the pipes.

CEC said they were willing to spend $15,000 on the project, which is estimated to cost between $3 and $4 million. This would include repairing the pipes and bringing the building up to American with Disabilities Act compliance.