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Family Files Suit Over Texas Inmates & Air Conditioning
An inmate waits for the bars to a dorm at a minimum-security facility in Texas to be opened. (credit: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Images) NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas family has filed a...
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Texas Lawmakers Consider Changes To Prison Care
AUSTIN (AP) – Proposed cuts to the health care provided to Texas prisoners could make the system unconstitutionally inadequate, experts warned lawmakers Monday. The Legislature has reduced funding for...
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Texas May Reconsider Sending Prostitutes To Prison
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas may be forced to reconsider a state law that allows prosecutors to charge prostitutes with a felony and send them to prison after three misdemeanor convictions. The Austin...
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2012 Shaping Up As Deadly Year For Texas Prisons
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — With four months still remaining, 2012 is already the deadliest year in more than a decade in Texas prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has reported 10 homicides this...
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Texas Prisons To Get Phone Restriction Devices
HOUSTON (AP) – Two Texas prisons that have had serious problems with cellphones being smuggled to inmates are getting a system to block phone calls coming from inside the lockups. Texas Department of...
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Texas Inmate Ordered Retried In ’80 ‘Waiting Ever Since’
GATESVILLE (AP) — Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial. Not long afterward,...
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Texas Prisons Aim To Eliminate Cellphones
BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - The nation’s largest state prison system is turning to electronic weaponry to combat the persistent headache of illegal cellphones smuggled to inmates. Final testing starts next...
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99 Years For Fort Worth Gangster Who Shot Up House Party
Gang member Jacob Cordero was sentenced to 99 years in prison for opening fire on a rival gang’s house party in 2011. One person was killed and seven others wounded. (credit: Tarrant Co. District...
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Texas Inmate Set To Die Wednesday Wins Reprieve
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas’ top criminal court called off Wednesday’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate linked to five killings in Houston, though...
View ArticleTexas Prisons Trial Ordered After Heat-Related Inmate Death
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a civil trial of the Texas prison system and its leadership in a civil rights lawsuit arising from the heat-related...
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