Thanks to reforms, the Texas prison population dwindled, and the troubled, privately managed Dawson State Jail near downtown Dallas closed in 2013. Now Texas is planning to end its decades-long ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...
The list of appointments was posted less than a month after the Star-Telegram found the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas.
Read full article: San Antonio police searching for suspects after 2 injured in West Side shooting One or ... to deter crime and could strain the state’s already overwrought prisons and jails, experts ...
In 1998, he joined the Texas Commission on Jail Standards ... with state standards. Herklotz said his territory as an inspector spanned about 90 counties, from Galveston to as far west as El ...
The investigation is tied to a federal lawsuit filed by Bernie Tiede, a Texas man spending life in prison who has reported ...
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