Justice Department Begins Phase-Out of Private Prisons
Five Texas prisons currently under contract with federal government
"...The Federal Bureau of Prisons will "decline to renew the contract or substantially reduce..."
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Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger
Lobbying to Save Lives in Texas Prisons
It'll cost $500 million to get A/C in prisons
"...air-conditioned prison to Lane Murray, one of many Texas prisons with no A/C, where temperatures this summer have risen..."
Aug. 25, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
The State Claims No One Is Dying From 120+° F Heat in Prisons
Part 2: The state’s response to the prison heat crisis
"...of heat that inmates in two-thirds of the state's prisons – about 95,000 people – have been enduring this..."
Aug. 18, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Texas Prisons Are Cooking People Alive. Are We Okay With That?
Part 1 in a series about heat in prison
"...of the day, are found in two-thirds of Texas prisons. They house approximately 95,000 people. Roughly 4 out of..."
Aug. 11, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Suicides in Texas Prisons Have Dramatically Increased
Brooklyn Hogrell’s mother says our prison agency failed her
"...Department of Criminal Justice, the agency that runs the prisons, told us it tracks suicides but that we would..."
June 14, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Texas Prisons as Bad as Iraq
"...could have easily come from inside our own Texas prisons. Most people don't know that there is no air-conditioning..."
May 28, 2004 Postmarks
Private Prisons Seek Broader Markets
Latest corporate wrinkle: "Treatment Industrial Complex"
"...rising, and the legislative pendulum swinging against building more prisons, the private companies that have assumed management of many..."
Nov. 24, 2014 News Post by Michael King
Distribute Condoms in Prisons
Nov. 9, 2006 Postmarks
Players, Prisons, Pit Stops, and Girl Gangs
March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw
Advocates Sue Texas Over Prisoners Being “Cooked To Death”
Filmmaker Rick Linklater joins the call for action
"...over. Soon, tens of thousands of Texas inmates in prisons without air conditioning will begin suffering through another summer..."
April 23, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon
Capitol Chronicle
Despite John Cornyn's jokes and the end of the Ruiz suit, Texas prisons still need reform.
"...of the 30-year-long inmate lawsuit against Texas and its prisons, known originally as Ruiz v. Estelle and more recently..."
June 21, 2002 News Column by Michael King
Shades of Gray
In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are
"...pay, high turnover, and poor training were turning Texas prisons into powderkegs, the union argued. Inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-guard assaults..."
April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee
Cruel and Unusual
Prisoners Fear Violence in Texas Prisons
"...help to explain the high crime rate in Texas prisons and why there were no guards around while Ector..."
Feb. 27, 1998 News Feature by Janet Heimlich
Sex, Drugs & Democracy
"...prostitutes, coffeeshops that specialize in hashish and other smokables, prisons, hospitals, and porn theatres to show how these different..."
Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker
Some State Prison Cells Are Far Too Cold, Families Report
Texas prison agency denies some claims
"...summer, family members and friends of inmates in Texas prisons shared accounts of the suffering their loved ones endured..."
Jan. 17, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon
COVID’s Toll on Texas Inmates Among the Worst in the Nation
LBJ School study details dismal infection, death rates
"...Nine of the approximately 200 inmates in Texas prisons who have died from COVID-19 in recent months had..."
Nov. 17, 2020 News Post by Brant Bingamon
Carandiru
In prison in Brazil is a woeful place to be.
"...is guilty of murdering a family member. Like most prisons (or at least most dramatically adapted prisons, the real..."
July 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Naked City
UT students protest the school's contract with Sodexho Marriott, a major stockholder in the world's largest private prison system.
"...than 53,000 prisoners are currently housed in the company's prisons, according to CCA. The activists say the private prison..."
June 1, 2001 News Feature by Jennie Kennedy
Doggett Seeks Info on Prison Evacuation (or Lack Thereof)
The Federal Bureau of Prisons kept some prisoners in place during Harvey flooding
"...filed a formal inquiry to the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Monday (Sept. 11) requesting information (and an explanation)..."
Sept. 15, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff
2000 Mules
U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate 69851-054 at it again
"...Not reviewed at press time. U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate 69851-054 rambling on about his usual conspiracy theory..."
May 20, 2022 Movie Review
Escape Plan
Stallone and Schwarzenegger team up for double the fun.
"...one of the world’s leading experts on maximum security prisons, a skill he confirms by having himself clandestinely imprisoned..."
Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
That Fighting Spirit
Burned: Life In and Out of Texas Youth Prisons
"...cut." Burned: Life In And Out of Texas Youth PrisonsAustin Screens Saturday, Oct. 23, 9:30pm,
Regal Arbor Cinema at..."
Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Opposition to Immigrant Detention Centers Mounting
"...Ga. In general, protesters decried the trend of private prisons making a buck on human misery. Specifically, activists criticized..."
Sept. 27, 2007 News Post by Patricia J. Ruland
The Condemned
Steve Austin stars in this WWE-produced movie about a death row convict who is brought to a remote island to fight nine other killers to the death for a televised bout.
"...Christopher Baker. Ten death row inmates from Third World prisons. One South Seas island. Thirty hours. Twenty ounces of..."
April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
Rain Without Thunder
"...equalize prosecution along class and racial lines since the prisons are crowded with convicted poor women of color while..."
March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
American Me
Olmos delivers a stark and unflinching study of the self-destructive perpetuation of violence, crime, and gang warfare in the Hispanic-American community.
"...proliferation of the mid-1970s. American Me’s thesis is that prisons, far from being giant warehouses for society's cast-offs, are,..."
March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Detention Is Not Child Care
"The conditions at Karnes and Dilley are equivalent to prisons," said Bob Libal
"..."The conditions at Karnes and Dilley are equivalent to prisons, not child-care facilities," said Bob Libal, executive director of..."
Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Texas Inmates Strike for Better Conditions
Inmates at seven state prisons have refused to leave their cells
"...On Monday, April 4, inmates at seven Texas state prisons launched a working strike to combat crude living and..."
April 6, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger
Plantations to Prison Farms: How Far Have We Come?
Texas’ tradition of forced labor lives on
"...But the top complaint, by far, is the heat...."
June 14, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan
Grim History
Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery
"...$35), in which he traces the history of American prisons through the prism of the "retributive mode" of the..."
