An ACLU report released Monday claims that Bureau of Prisons policies discriminate against non-citizen inmates and that prisoners are “subjected to shocking abuse and mistreatment.”
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Just four other governors answered Rick Perry’s call to defy a federal law designed to reduce prison rape.
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Recent stories from diverse parts of Texas suggest that increased awareness, public pressure and new technology are creating more accountability for law enforcement officers engage in police brutality.
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Omar Figueredo declined to answer questions from Border Patrol agents at the Brownsville airport. What happened next should worry all citizens.
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You’d think that Texas’ highest civil court—overseen by nine Republicans—would be sympathetic to a case that turns so pivotally on property rights.
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States, including Texas, that execute inmates with lethal injection no longer have the secure sources of drugs they once relied on, and that means the risk of something going wrong has mounted.
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One by one, members of the disbanded Panama Unit, a street level drug trafficking task force, stood before U.S. District Judge Randy Crane in a McAllen courtroom this week to receive their sentences.
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Texas Public Policy Foundation estimates that thousands of minors are still hauled off to jails because of a legal loophole: violating a valid court order.
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As executions decline in Texas, a small-town prosecutor decides whether to seek the death penalty.
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No one wins when we’re paying millions of dollars to tear families apart.
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