Scott picks up on this Chron editorial endorsing the recent proposal to spend $267 million to build more jails in Harris County, and points out all of the bothersome details that they failed to address. I'm not going to re-plow this ground again, but I am going to say this: Let's accept for argument's sake that Harris County really does need all of this new prison space, that none of the issues with overcrowding we face now are problems of mismanagement. Where is the plan to hire enough guards for all these new prisons? As we've already seen, the county - which already faces a shortage of guards - will be competing with HPD and the armed forces for its job applicants. What are they going to do to increase the size of that pool, and to win enough of them over? It seems to me that one logical way to do this is to sweeten the deal for prospective jailers. Is that being considered, and if so, what effect will it have overall on Harris County's finances? Commissioner's Court is awfully quiet on this point. Tell me what that plan is, and then we can talk about the wisdom of this scheme. Until then, I see this proposal as little more than vaporware.