The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will decide in March if Yolanda Saldívar, a former Selena fan club president convicted in the Texas pop star's 1995 shooting death, will be eligible for parole.
An article in @reasonmagazine (Reason Magazine) discusses the irony of a book by prisoners being banned in state prisons in Texas.
The book details prisoners' experiences with solitary confinement. Reason's article notes that: "Studies on the long-term effects of solitary confinement attest to the brutal nature described in many of the letters."
https://reason.com/2024/10/17/these-texas-inmates-wrote-a-book-then-the-prison-system-banned-it/
The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
Prison Banned Books Week: TX Bans Book Cuz It's Effective
https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/prison-banned-books-week-tx-bans-book-cuz-its-effective/
* TDCJ bans book of prisoner writings to shut down RHU/long-term isolation
* censorship is part of counter-insurgency coming down from Governor Abbot
The head of the Texas prisons department said he wants to install air conditioning in every state lockup — he just doesn’t have the cash to do it.
Women in Texas prison say a guard is preying on them
The Biden administration sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, alleging the state agency discriminated against an employee, refusing to allow her to wear a head covering as part of her religious practice.
Harris and other major Texas counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.
Over the last year, the gap between the number of convicted prisoners in the Harris County Jail and the number of those sent to state prisons on a weekly basis has grown substantially.
If you want more deets but don't have time to read 60-plus pages of reports, here's my round-up of some highlights with John Tedesco
#texas #escape #tdcj #prisonreform https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/hc120922TDCJREPORT-17641667.php
A Texas inmate hijacked a prison bus last summer, evaded authorities for weeks, and brutally killed a Tomball man and his four grandsons.
It was one of the deadliest prison escapes in U.S. history.
@keribla and I spent months figuring out what went wrong. Here's our story, in a collaboration with @marshallproj and @houstonchron:
