Texas couple gets lengthy prison sentences after their pit bulls mauled elderly veteran to death
A Texas couple whose pit bulls viciously mauled an elderly veteran to death will each spend nearly a decade behind bars for ...
Texas prisons and jails are recruiting more teenagers to shore up guard shortage
Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...
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West Texas private prison to shut down after Tarrant County ends contract to outsource prisoners
The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility failed a state safety inspection last year. Even though it passed a reinspection, ...
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Texas’ prison guard shortfall makes it harder for inmates to get reprieve from extreme indoor heat, critics say
Attorneys for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are trying to dissuade a federal judge from forcing the state to cool its un-air conditioned prisons argue in an ongoing lawsuit that the ...
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Shortage of Texas prison guards makes it harder for inmates to cool down in overheated prisons, critics say
TEXAS, USA — This story was first published on the Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. The day before Patrick Womack was found face-down and unresponsive in a hot prison cell in August 2023 ...
A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections
When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison’s notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a ...
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Texas’ prison guard shortfall makes it harder for inmates to get reprieve from extreme indoor heat, critics say
Attorneys for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are trying to dissuade a federal judge from forcing the state to cool its un-air conditioned prisons argue in an ongoing lawsuit that the ...