Department of Criminal Injustice?

A former TDCJ employee sues, claiming gender discrimination

"...Michelle Lyons, former director of public information for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal-Justice Officials Get Spanked

Officials with Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board of Pardons and Paroles get tongue lashings during Lege hearing, where agency leaders were questioned about communication and coordination problems

"...Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal Justice: Cutting the Three Ps

"...If lawmakers want to reduce criminal justice spending, they'll have to cut the budget of..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Executing Texas' Law of Parties

Jeff Wood never killed anybody; Robert Pruett may not have either. Why does the state want to put them both to death?

"...It's been a slow summer in Texas' death chamber, with executions stayed left and right, state..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

"...A pregnant employee of the Kyle PD shows up dead behind a Dumpster..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Criminal Justice Policy Folly

Perry signs executive order creating state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center, basically reconstituting Texas' Criminal Justice Policy Council, which he axed back in 2003

"...on Jan. 29 an executive order creating the state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center to collect and analyze data..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal Justice: Innocence Is No Defense

There are several dozen criminal justice reforms under consideration, and a handful might actually be enacted.

"...Matters of life and death have been the subject of passionate..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Death and drugs dominated the year for Austin police

"...1) New Year's Murder The murder of music fan extraordinaire Esme Barrera, inside her rented cottage..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Forensics: Politics vs. Justice

The Forensic Science Commission does what it can under A.G.'s limitations

"...a formal conclusion about whether the State Fire Marshal's Office engaged in negligence or misconduct in investigating the now..."

Sept. 16, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Some died, some walked

"...1) SANDERS SHOOTING EVERLASTING We posted the city-redacted portions of the KeyPoint Government Solutions report critical of the Austin..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 9 Criminal Justice Stories

"...1) ANOTHER EASTSIDE SHOOTING In May, Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II in..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal Justice: From Headlines to Humane

"...Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, would increase penalties for violent sexual offenses against children, including the possibility of the death penalty..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Freedom for the Kellers and Rosemary Lehmberg's wild ride

"...trial. Their release brings to a close one chapter of the notorious case in which the Kellers were accused..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

For Texas Prisoners, COVID-19 Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Criminal justice advocates warn of outbreaks behind bars

"...Criminal justice advocates have warned for weeks that it was..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Texas Justice

Book on Texas' Death Row Presents Just the Facts

"...If you live in Texas this October, you no longer have to wait until..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Dick Holland

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...the only witnesses to his murder, the first murder of a Texas prison guard by an inmate since 1985,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Crimes of Motherhood

The crimes of women who gave birth in the TDCJ in 2003

"...Commercialized sexual offenses: 7..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...On the evening of October 17 -- while much of the nation was..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

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..."

Nov. 17, 2020 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: “Texas Seven” Member Contests “Law of Parties”

A robbery ended in a police officer death while Patrick Murphy waited outside. Current Texas law holds him responsible.

"...Editor’s Note: After this story went to press, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Patrick Murphy’s request to..."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Amid Record Heat, Texas Locks Prisoners Down, Reducing Shower Access

Advocates feel decision is retaliation

"...Amid record heat, and prisoners’ reports of deaths, lying in vomit, and using toilet water to..."

Sept. 7, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Texas Planning to Execute Men in Its Faith-Based Program

Saving souls, destroying bodies

"...Since late 2021, Texas has been working to rehabilitate death row inmates through..."

Nov. 8, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Opinion: Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard

A writer in her eighth year of solitary confinement laments widespread neglect of the experiences of women in prison

"...In December of last year, the Texas Civil Rights Project released a..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kwaneta Harris

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..."

April 6, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Supreme Court OKs Use of Execution Drug

SCOTUS greenlights use of lethal injection drug midazolam

"...Court ruled 5-4 against four death row inmates (one of whom has since been executed) who sought to determine..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

How Texas Youth Commission Fell

The scandal engulfing the Texas Youth Commission has claimed some scalps, but will the Legislature demand more?

"...Texas Youth Commission (a happy, skippy euphemism for the juvie..."

March 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Exploring the Life and Death of Jennifer Cave in True Crime Podcast The Orange Tree

Former UT students Tinu Thomas and Haley Butler find a history of murder on campus

"...their conversations would inevitably circle back to the murder of Jennifer Cave, which occurred mere yards away, behind door..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by David Sotelo

The Other Side of Prison

Inmate Population Swells

"...state's inmate population grows, so, too, does the number of inmate families in Texas. At the end of 1998,..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Butts

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