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Gov. Jeff Colyer signed an executive order Wednesday supporting the "Ban the Box" initiative. The new order requires state agencies to remove a checkbox...
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Lambda Legal has settled with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in the case of Passion Star, a transgender woman who claimed prison officials…
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The State of Texas may soon close some of its state-run juvenile prisons, reports The Houston Chronicle.The juvenile prisons have been the focus of…
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According to the latest numbers for incarceration rates across the U.S., Oklahoma held the second highest per capita incarceration rate among all…
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Yesterday, HPPR reported a story about rampant abuse and neglect in Texas’s juvenile prisons.Today, The Texas Tribune is reporting that inmates in more…
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Child and civil rights advocates are urging Texas lawmakers to close the state’s juvenile prisons. The state has five remaining juvenile lockups, and…
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Oklahoma’s prisons have long been overcrowded and underfunded. For example, the state’s three women’s prisons are at 129 percent of capacity.To make…
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The State of Oklahoma imprisons twice as many women as any other state, reports The Atlantic. A recent documentary made by two filmmakers working on…
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The State of Oklahoma will not execute any inmates in 2017.As KOKH reports, this year marks the third straight year that the death chamber has remained…
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Overcrowding in Oklahoma’s prisons is still a major problem as the dog days of summer approach, and state Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh…