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DOJ sues Texas Department of Criminal Justice for alleged religious discrimination | Houston Public...
Houston Public Media· 46 minutes agoThe Biden administration sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Friday, alleging thestate...
Leon County Jail found to be noncompliant by state
The Bryan-College Station Eagle· 5 days agoAccording to an April 16 report from the Commission on Jail Standards, Leon County jail was noncompliant with 11 minimum standards.
Texas Prisons Are Keeping Inmates at Sweltering Temperatures
Esquire· 4 days agoMonday’s amended complaint, which expands the lawsuit to apply to inmates beyond Tiede, asks the...
Texas needs to air-condition prisons before a federal court turns up the heat again | Opinion
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe suit, originally brought by Bernie Tiede, the infamous killer...s potentially expensive. If the...
Oversight inspectors accuse Sheriff's Department of retaliation after reports on jail fires
LA Times via AOL· 4 days agoIn the decades since Men’s Central Jail opened, inmates have regularly set fires for a variety of...
Feds accuse Texas prison agency of discriminating against employee for wearing a headscarf
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn July 2019, Spears was hired to work as a clerk at the Pam Lychner State Jail, a TDCJ facility in...
America's prison system is cruel, senseless and in crisis
San Antonio Express-News· 4 days agoAs recently reported by the Marshall Project, conditions in federal prisons in Texas and elsewhere...
Dallas County Jail population is swelling and it’s for the dumbest reason
Dallas Morning News· 1 day agoThe Dallas County jail population is surging past last year's level, in part because too many ...
Justice Department sues Texas prisons alleging religious discrimination | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 1 day agoThe Texas Department of Criminal Justice denied an employee's request to wear a religious head...
Victim devoted to family, children tell Texas jurors considering death penalty for killer
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTimothy Fitzpatrick, who has worked in Texas prisons almost his entire adult life and primarily at...