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When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families
A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use.
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Feds accuse Texas prison agency of discriminating against employee for wearing a headscarf
A federal lawsuit asserts that the Texas agency terminated a state prison clerk who refused to remove a head covering in line with her Ifa faith.
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Texas’ lockdown of its overheated state prisons is worsening an already volatile situation
Experts warn that the crackdown, which began Sept. 6, will only exacerbate already inhumane conditions inside Texas prisons.
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Top-ranked High Schools, Karol G: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week
Also among the Current‘s top news this week was a story about the theft of all four tires from a vehicle at SeaWorld.
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Bad Takes: The Texas GOP’s book banning has nothing to do with protecting kids
This book-ratings regime has little to do with protecting schoolchildren from sexual trauma and predation.
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As the death toll in stifling Texas prisons climbs, congressional Democrats ask for investigation
Most Texas prisons lack air conditioning. At least 41 prisoners have died of heart-related or undetermined causes since the unrelenting heat wave began.
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A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.
The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
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Prisoners’ relatives and former inmates plead for help as deaths mount in sweltering Texas prisons
Several lawmakers supported a call for Gov. Greg Abbott to bring lawmakers back immediately to approve air conditioning for prisons, which the Legislature declined to do during its regular session.
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Life With Parole: Probation and parole systems remain understaffed and buggy in Texas.
But both systems are plagued with inefficiencies, and there aren’t enough officers. People fall through the cracks and land behind bars.
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Mapping the legacy of prison hunger strikes in Texas
‘I’m willing to die for the cause, because I can’t live.’
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After 10 days, dozens of Texas prisoners remain on hunger strike protesting solitary confinement practices
Although the number of men refusing food has steadily declined, 38 are still starving themselves to protest Texas policies that often keep prisoners in isolation for years or even decades.
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Texas teens embark on an idealistic quest to shut down the state’s last five youth prisons
Spurred by reports of inhumane conditions at Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities, Austin-area teenagers are lobbying the Legislature to reform the system.
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More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices
Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.
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Bad Takes: Texas prisons’ book bans serve no one, including the society into which inmates return
More than 9,000 titles, ranging from computer programming instruction to rock biographies, are banned in Texas prisons.
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Texas prisoners launching hunger strike to protest state’s harsh solitary confinement practices
Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the state’s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.
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Prison contractor MTC accused of billing Texas millions for inmate treatment programs it didn’t provide
Before being released on parole, most Texas prisoners must complete treatment programs like life skills or addiction therapy. Private prison operator Management & Training Corporation allegedly stopped providing the services, but kept taking the money.
