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Her reporting contributed to several reforms to Texas prison policies, including allowing inmates lacking teeth to have their dentures 3D printed. [11] An article she wrote for The Washington Post about women's prisons in California built won her a National Magazine Award. [5] Blakinger joined The Marshall Project at the end of 2019.
The Newton County Correctional Center (originally Fillyaw Correctional Center) was a privately operated prison located in Newton, Newton County, Texas, owned by the county. From 1995 until its permanent closure in 2012, the county contracted with the Bobby Ross Group, Correctional Services Corporation , the GEO Group , and other prison ...
The South Texas Project (STP) was founded in 1972 by the ACLU. [4] In 1978, attorney James C. Harrington created Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido, Inc. (OLPU) as a grassroots foundation in South Texas. STP came under the auspices of OLPU soon after OLPU was founded. OLPU was a part of the late-1960s farm worker movement headed by César Chávez.
The jail was issued a noncompliance notice from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to identification. Jail or Agency: Hunt County Criminal Justice Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: 3/1/2016; Date of death: 6/13/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources: Texas Commission on Jail Standards, www.heraldbanner.com
The Texas Innocence Project estimates that Texas prisons contain 3,000 to 9,000 innocent people, which is about 2% to 6% of the total prison population. “All it takes is a false accusation and a ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
Women at a federal medical prison in Fort Worth say staff did not give Gwen Rider the mental health and medical care she needed. She went to Texas prison for treatment. Instead, abuse contributed ...
Among the inmates at Camp Bryan is Real Housewives star Jen Shah, while January 6 rioter Jenna Ryan spent a 60-day stretch there in 2021