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Harris, Tarrant and Bexar counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.
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Bernie Tiede, whose murder of a Texas widow was immortalized by Richard Linklater, is suing the state over what he calls its “cruel and unusual” treatment of inmates in hot prisons.
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An organizer alleged the prison was retaliating by interfering with the inmates' attempts to contact the outside world.
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In 2018, after a years-long lawsuit, the state of Texas installed air-conditioning at the Wallace Pack prison southeast of College Station, as part of a…
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A new project hopes to provide data-driven research to state agencies as they explore new solutions to enduring social and economic problems. Rice…
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This week on "Texas Matters," we look at the death penalty.Texas has executed 553 prisoners since capital punishment resumed in 1976, which is more than…
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How Texas determines whether someone has the intellectual capacity to be sentenced to death is being examined by the nation’s highest court on Tuesday.…
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AUSTIN — The identity of Texas’ lethal drug supplier would remain confidential under a measure the state House approved Monday — bringing it to the cusp…
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A San Antonio man convicted of killing with the officer’s own gun in a struggle 14 years ago is headed for execution.No last-day…
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Floyd Blackburn recently included the following anecdote in a letter from his cell at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville to the Prison Justice League, a…