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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE


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โ€œWe are humans back hereโ€: As Texas hunger strike wanes, prisoners speak out against solitary confinement

After 21 days, the last of many Texas prisoners to consistently refuse food ended his hunger strike. In letters to The Texas Tribune, two prisoners spoke out on the dire solitary confinement conditions that led them to starve themselves.

Texas death row prisoners spend decades in solitary confinement. A lawsuit wants to end that โ€œcruelโ€ treatment.

Men sentenced to death in Texas are held in isolation until their execution dates, with little human contact, medical care or legal help, according to a lawsuit filed to improve treatment of the condemned.

After 10 days, dozens of Texas prisoners remain on hunger strike protesting solitary confinement practices

Although the number of men refusing food has steadily declined, 38 are still starving themselves to protest Texas policies that often keep prisoners in isolation for years or even decades.

More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices

Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.

Texas prisoners launching hunger strike to protest stateโ€™s harsh solitary confinement practices

Hundreds of prisoners may participate in the protest beginning Tuesday, the first day of the stateโ€™s legislative session. Texas often keeps prisoners in solitary confinement for years or decades.

State agencies push for better worker pay as critical staffing crunch hits Texas government

Texas agencies say they are being hammered by a historic staffing crisis, particularly when it comes to those in the trenches serving the stateโ€™s most vulnerable populations.

โ€œItโ€™s a living hellโ€: Scorching heat in Texas prisons revives air-conditioning debate

Texas heat has killed prisoners and cost the state millions in wrongful death and civil rights lawsuits. Prison rights advocates hope a budget surplus next year will finally push lawmakers to invest in air conditioning.

Texas will resume inmate transportation after completing review of convicted murdererโ€™s escape

The review came after Gonzalo Lopez escaped on May 12 and eventually killed five people.

Texas suspends most transportation of inmates while it reviews convicted murdererโ€™s escape

The review comes after Gonzalo Lopez escaped from a prison bus last month. Authorities say he killed a family of five before they found and killed him.

Authorities fatally shoot convicted murderer who killed family of five while on the lam

Authorities say Gonzalo Lopez killed a man and his four grandchildren in Leon County. He escaped from a prison bus nearly three weeks ago.

Four days after audacious escape from prison bus, Texas still hasnโ€™t found convicted murderer

Officials are still trying to piece together how Gonzalo Lopez managed to cut through a metal door and hijack a prison bus Thursday. An extensive manhunt continues in Leon County.

Spared execution once, Texas prisoner Kenneth Foster could face death penalty again after cellmate's death

Foster had been the getaway driver, not the triggerman, in a killing that first put him on death row. Former Gov. Rick Perry commuted his death sentence to life in prison in 2007.

U.S. Supreme Court justices appear reluctant to loosen restrictions on religious advisers during Texas executions

The latest Texas execution protocols forbid spiritual advisers from praying aloud or touching prisoners as the prisoners are killed. Some members of the high court said they feared overturning the rules would lead to a flood of requests for other religious accommodations during executions.

U.S. Supreme Court weighs religionโ€™s place in the Texas death chamber

After halting three Texas executions because of limits placed on spiritual advisers in the death chamber, the high court will hear arguments today over what religious rights the state must accord inmates as it kills them.

For third time in recent years, U.S. Supreme Court halts a Texas execution over rules for religious advisers in the death chamber

John Ramirez was scheduled to die Wednesday. His last request to the state had been to let his pastor hold on to him as he died, something the state denied. The high court wants to hear oral arguments on the matter later this year.

Converted Texas prison gets first immigrant detainees as Gov. Greg Abbottโ€™s border security effort ramps up

Border-crossing immigrants are being arrested by Texas troopers on state charges like trespassing, and theyโ€™re starting to trickle into a prison emptied to house them.

Almost 150 guards are staffing an empty Texas prison as state officials work on Gov. Greg Abbottโ€™s plan to use it for immigrants

While many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in "maintenance mode" as officials scramble to implement the governor's plan to increase the state's role in border enforcement.

Texas executes John Hummel for murdering his family in 2009

A civil liberties group had tried to delay Hummel's death after reporters were excluded from the stateโ€™s last execution.

Dozens who died in Texas prisons during the pandemic had been granted parole, new report shows

At any given time, thousands of Texas prisoners have been approved for parole but not yet released. At least 42 of those people died in the 12 months after the coronavirus first swept the state.

For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas execution

On Wednesday, the state executed Quintin Jones, 41, for the Tarrant County murder of his great-aunt in 1999.

After sweltering temperatures killed Texas prisoners, lawmakers vote to install air conditioning

The bill initially approved by the House aims to cool all of Texasโ€™ prisons before 2029. But even if it is signed into law, the lockups will only be air conditioned if lawmakers provide specific funds for installation.

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