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Friday, September 22, 2000

Woman doesn't feel honored to be Texas prisoner No. 1 million
First with seven-digit ID number would rather not be in the spotlight for this reason
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE -Twanda Thibodeaux didn't fade into the obscurity she hoped for when she entered prison.
   Instead, she has gained notoriety as prisoner No. 1,000,000 in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the first to gain a seventh digit in her prison identification number.
   "It's kind of embarrassing," she told the Huntsville Item. "You want to be known for something, but not that. I'll be glad to get rid of this number and go home soon."
   Thibodeaux in April was convicted in Harris County of welfare fraud and sentenced to two years in prison.
   "I wish it would have gone to someone else because I wanted to just ride this out, get it over with ," she said from the Dawson State Jail in downtown Dallas.
   As she began her prison stay, a classification officer called out: "Where's Thibodeaux? Where's Thibodeaux?'"
   She raised her hand.
   The officer asked if she knew her number.
   "It's 1 million," the officer told her. "It's 1 million, so you're the 1 millionth customer!"
   Despite her designation, she is not the 1 millionth inmate to enter the Texas prison system, which as of Thursday had 150,525 inmates. Some blocks of numbers are reserved for specific classifications of inmates, such as those on death row, prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said. Some of those numbers have not yet been assigned.

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