Prosecutors Won’t Drop Charges Against Brownsville ISD Honor Student
Timothy Murray was put in solitary confinement after reporting Principal Myrta Garza for bullying.
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Timothy Murray was put in solitary confinement after reporting Principal Myrta Garza for bullying.
Texas has banished hundreds of prisoners to more than a decade of solitary confinement. Many of these prisoners aren’t sure how—or, in some cases, if—they will ever get out.
Russell Johnson’s sister warned officials that nearly three years in solitary confinement had broken him. His suicide in isolation two months later points to compounded crises inside Texas prisons.
Nearly a third of Texas prisoners in restrictive housing have been there for six years or longer, according to a new national survey.
New studies show that trauma biologically alters the brains of young boys in ways that affect their adult behavior.
An informal Observer survey finds complex religious beliefs among death row inmates.
In an informal Observer survey, death row inmates describe a world of extreme isolation, where mental illness is both cause and symptom.