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The Republican Party in Texas supports state legislatures limiting voting including "disenfranchisement of convicted felons." That's per their 2020 platform: https://www.texasgop.org/platform/ Currently Texans with feloni

#BREAKING Today @DisRightsTx and @TexasAppleseed are filing complaint with the DOJ about Texas juvenile prisons. In 23 pages, they provide data, links and citations outlining the years of chaos and

This is wild, even by Texas standards: The judge in a death penalty case *hired the prosecutor* as his law clerk during trial. And no one told the defense for

This is quite the exit interview - a social worker who left the Harris County DA’s Office says they were exploiting sex workers with their prostitution diversion program - which

This guy wrote me from prison asking for an interview. He says had his toe amputated & then caught covid & ended up in a wheelchair, transferred to a max

Remember that riot at a Texas prison a few weeks ago? I’ve been poking into that more: Turns out some of the guys defeated the locks & broke out of

I just talked to a woman in a wheelchair who is doing 10 years for < $1,000 of meth. She says she has hep C and is in a prison

Texas announced two more prisoner deaths today. One - Timothy - was a man I knew. He wrote me a lot. “I don’t like to think of dying,” he said

UPDATE: This story has taken a sad turn. This man should have been released yesterday - but when his wife went to pick him up, the prison said nevermind. Now

SCOOP: The Texas prison system will begin mass-testing inmates for COVID at certain units this week, according to an email sent to officials. The testing, which will be conducted by

#BREAKING Today, a group of physicians & med experts wrote an open letter to death penalty states asking them to give up their execution drugs: Doctors need them to treat

The first time I woke up in solitary I thought I was dead. That was years ago, but as we’re all self-isolating, it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot.