[Steve Schulin]

The thread title here is from the web version of the article on the newspaper's website. The print edition used different title for the front page story: "Prisons to hire denture specialist | Chronicle report leads to changes that will help inmates".

[proud American in Canada]

This might be a good idea—when they get out they will be better able to reintegrate into society. Would also help with self-esteem, which would also help them when they get out.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Dental insurance is a joke.

[ConservativeMind]

Don’t give them dentures. Let them eat pureed food.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, Medicare does not cover dentures.

Guess seniors in TX who need teeth should commit a felony.

[dangerdoc]

Agree providing them is a good idea, but they should have to pay for them. Work it off in the prison shop.

[Right Republican]

And just how do people lose their teeth? DRUGS! Taxpayer-paid dentures, no matter how compassionate and likely to help the released convict secure employment afterwords, STILL means that criminal behavior is rewarded. HOW can you support this expenditure KNOWING that hard-working, law-abiding, taxpaying, drug-free citizens not only have to sacrifice whatever else they would buy for themselves with that extra tax money, have that money confiscated by the government for uses that they would not choose, and then not even have the luxury to have the government pay the bill for their OWN dentures? Whew. What a misplaced sense of compassion some of you have.

[moovova]

“Yo Rastus...you be sure to pull those dentures out before you visit me in my cell tonight. I don’t want no accidents.”