Texas should shutter underused prisons, jails amid guard shortage
The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...
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Texas should close prisons and jails with staffing challenges, state oversight panel says
A report found up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a 26% ...
Dallas Observer2d
Texas Prisons Suffer From Dangerous Understaffing
Understaffed and overcrowded, Texas prisons are experiencing worsening conditions that leave both staff and the incarcerated ...
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Texas sends more than 400 Guardsmen to US-Mexico border
The troops, part of a unit called the Texas Tactical Border Force, will join those already deployed to the border through ...
Gov. Abbott directs Texas military to work with Trump on border security
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is sending hundreds of soldiers in the Texas Military Department to work with the U.S. Border ...
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Inmate Describes How Execution Days Change Prison
Cesar Hernandez, an inmate at the Huntsville Unit in Texas, got candid about execution day prison in an essay for the Prison Journalism Project. As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 inmates on ...
San Antonio Current17d
Texas should close prisons and jails with staffing challenges, state oversight panel says
The recommendations come after a report in September found that up to 70% of guard positions were unfilled at some Texas prisons and that TDCJ staff has a 26% turnover rate. The report found that ...