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 ...
Texas prison inmates swelter amid persistent guard staffing shortages, critics say
Prisoners and reform advocates say persistent staffing shortages has left many state prison without enough guards to mitigate ...
Texas man sentenced to prison for embezzling from Norfolk transit company
The former manager of Norfolk's North Fork Area Transit was sentenced to prison after being found guilty of embezzling more ...
Hundreds of Harris County inmates to be moved from closing west Texas private jail to Louisiana
The impending closure of the Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility in Garza County has Harris County making plans to move ...
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons
There’s been a proliferation of data-driven mapping tools that illuminate disparities in environmental harm, but they do ...
Judge denies effort to halt State Fair of Texas' gun ban
DALLAS (AP) — A judge on Thursday denied a effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt the recently announced ban on ...
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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
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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Corrections officers file complaint against NDOC over max-security inmate swap
'The Five' co-hosts react to Teamsters declining to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as a poll favors former President ...