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The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: ‘No Place for Old Men’
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.
No Place for Old Men By Dick J. Reavis Published February 15 The state of Texas operates 109 prisons holding about 148,000 inmates. Some 27,000 of them are, l...Read More
No Place for Old Men
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense....Read More
Eye on Texas: Flex Time
Combining her own experience and the access she has as a photographer, Laura Buckman embarks on her dream assignment, depicting what it's like for inmates to pr...Read More
An Unlikely Alliance Urges State Prison Closures
Conservatives and public employee unions rarely unite over an issue, but desperation makes strange bedfellows. At the end of 2012, a surprising coalition emerge...Read More