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Texas Lawmakers Consider State Jails a “Complete Failure”

Loaded on June 5, 2019 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News June, 2019, page 54
Filed under: Jail Specific. Location: Texas.

by Matt Clarke 

In 2019, the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence issued a report that called the state jail system “a complete failure.” Created in 1993, the category of crime known as a state jail felony was intended to segregate certain nonviolent, low-level offenders – especially those convicted ...

 

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