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New criminal justice laws in Oklahoma, approved by voters last November, went into effect last week but as Oklahoma Watch reports, the laws are still…
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The State of Texas is putting the brakes on the idea of debtors jail, reports The San Antonio Express News. For decades, the Lone Star State has been…
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A new report finds that the Texas prison populace has been growing smaller, ever since reforms were instituted ten years ago.In fact, as the San Antonio…
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is growing frustrated with the slow pace of criminal justice reform in her state.As KFOR reports, last week Fallin lamented the…
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One prisoner of Kansas' El Dorado Correctional Facility, who has compared solitary confinement to the “gates of hell” is both praising and criticizing a…
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The number of incarcerated inmates in Oklahoma has reached 62,000, reports The Norman Transcript. The state’s prisons are currently at 109% capacity. Back…
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Near the end of the Obama administration, prison reform advocates had grown cautiously optimistic that America’s pattern of incarcerating two million US…
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A bipartisan coalition of Texas lawmakers has proposed a series of reforms that would help poor defendants get out of jail, reports The Houston Chronicle.…
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The death of an inmate at the Clements Unit outside of Amarillo is being investigated as a homicide, reports The Amarillo Globe News. The prisoner was…
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A database has been made public that reveals the files of over 5,000 people who have died in police custody in Texas, reports The Houston Chronicle. This…