They would be turned loose because the guards wouldn't be there and can't let the criminals starve to death and smell up the place.
The main state prison in Texas is in Huntsville, TX, 20 miles south of me. When those guys get out now, they get on a bus in Huntsville, and go to Galveston. How do I know that? Because I psychologically tested criminals in Galveston, Texas, and there they were having gotten out of Huntsville.
They head down Hwy. 45 and don't stop until they get to the beach in Galveston. There is a half way house there that keeps them for a relatively short period of time and Texas Rehab. at that time wanted them tested to see if they were a lost cause or not and that's what I did, test them.
When they have to leave the half way house, they live on the beach - any non-criminal going there after sundown was risking his/her life. They had nothing to eat and would burglarize houses, eat out of garbage cans, do anything they had to in order to eat. One I was testing hadn't had any food that day and it was afternoon. I took a sandwich out of my bag and gave it to him - who knows, maybe I kept someone from getting mugged.
I just know the Huntsville criminals won't stay in Huntsville, they will head to the shore, they always do.
Now don’t you fret little people. Obama, his cabinet, Congress, and the elites will have their food, power, guns, bunkers and enough guards for protection.
Sleep safe folks, the political 1% will be fine.
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Texas has a stand-alone power grid....in the electrical sense still the independent Texas Republic.