Texas City Jails Provide Inadequate Functionality
City jails across Texas have been criticized for years for falling short in areas of basic requirements and functionality. Issues like lack of quality food, medical care, lack of showering facilities,...
View ArticleTexas Jails Hold Thousands With Untreated Mental Illness
The mentally ill seem to have drawn the short straw again this year as the state stands to cut funding to many community care programs, treatment, and counseling organizations. The state is already...
View ArticleTexas Juvenile Justice Reforms Promote Treatment Over Incarceration
A bill that changes how the state approaches juvenile justice matters was signed last week by Governor Rick Perry. The bill looks not only to save money but to save children from a life of crime,...
View ArticleCompensation Doesn’t Come Easy for Texas’ Wrongfully Convicted
A bill sits on Governor Rick Perry’s desk that would make it a little easier for those who were wrongfully convicted to collect compensation for the years they spent behind bars, serving time for...
View ArticleClosing a Prison: A Texas First
A 102 year old prison will soon be closed, marking the first time the state of Texas has shut down such a facility and signaling a shift in priorities being seen across the state and the entire...
View ArticleAs Texas Prison Closed, More Bunks Were Being Added
Just a few months ago, we blogged about a Texas first: the closing of Sugar Land’s Central Unit prison. But while that closure was initially seen as something to celebrate—signaling a shift away from...
View ArticleDallas County Jail Home To Mentally Ill
In an interesting piece for the Denton Record-Chronicle, Matt Roberts of Mental Health America of Greater Dallas is quoted as saying, “We’ve traded hospitals for jails.” He is referring to the fact...
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Dallas Feels Heat for School to Prison Pipeline
The “school to prison pipeline” has become a popular phrase lately, but it isn’t just a hot tagline devoid of meaning. Kids who are criminalized at a young age are far more likely to be a fixture in...
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