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Texas heat has killed prisoners and cost the state millions in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits. Prison rights advocates hope a budget surplus next year will finally push lawmakers to invest in air conditioning.
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The Damon Allen Act bars a person from being released on a no-cash bond if charged with certain crimes.
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Following a declining inmate population and dangerous understaffing in Texas prisons, the state is closing two of its more than 100 lockups.
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Gary Ryan was less than three months away from getting out of prison — and his family was doing everything right. His brother-in-law lined up a job for...
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State leaders have recently cheered record-low unemployment rates in Texas. But the economic success has made it that much harder for the state to run a...
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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...