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America’s Deadliest Jails: Tarrant County Edition by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso In January 2025, protests erupted outside the Tarrant County Jail (TCJ) in Fort Worth, Texas, with demonstrators holding signs that read “Sheriff of Shame” and “69 + Deaths = Mass Murder.” So many people showed up to …
Brief • September 15, 2025
Filed under: Bankruptcy
In Re Tehum Care Services, Inc.-Order Granting Motion Determining That Any Payment Obligation by YesCare Corp, CHS TX, Inc, and Corizon Health New Mexico Owed to Ward Was Not Release Case 23-90086 Document 2460 Filed in TXSB on 09/15/25 Page 1 of 5 United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of …
News in Brief by Alabama: On Sunday, June 15, 2025, state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Airika Dorsey was arrested for allegedly smuggling food to a prisoner at St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to WABM in Birmingham. The DOC confirmed that Dorsey was caught in the act and subsequently booked …
DOJ Finds Unconstitutional Conditions in Texas Juvenile Detention by Chuck Sharman Texas lawmakers took steps in opposite directions toward solving a crisis in state juvenile detention centers, after all five lockups operated by the state Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) were found to be violating the civil rights of youthful offenders …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Texas Social Workers Challenge Blanket Denial of State Occupational License Based on Youthful Assault Convictions by Matthew Clarke The Institute of Justice (IJ) is helping two Texas women with master’s degrees in social work challenge a 2019 state law that bars anyone with a prior conviction involving the threat or …
Texas Lawmakers Restrict Bail and Raise Criminal Penalties, Punt on Prison and Jail Conditions by Chuck Sharman When the Texas legislature adjourned its annual session on June 2, 2025, lawmakers had taken some steps to restrict bail and successfully fought back an effort to expand parole. Most other jail and …
Filing • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Settlement, Censorship, 2025 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER § § vs. § § GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS; TOM WATT § in his individual capacity; and WILLIAM A § BENNIE, in his official capacity …
Brief • July 31, 2025
Filed under: Censorship
HRDC v. Grayson County, TX, Settlement, Censorship, 2025 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER § § vs. § § GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS; TOM WATT § in his individual capacity; and WILLIAM A § BENNIE, in his official capacity …
Brief • July 25, 2025
Estate of Jace Coons v. Cogburn, TX, Opinion-5th Circuit of Appeals, Wrongful Death-Medical Neglect, 2025 Case: 24-10777 Document: 92-1 Page: 1 Date Filed: 07/25/2025 Wniteb ~tate~ <!Court of ~ppeal~ for tbe jfiftb <!Circuit United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED July 25, 2025 No. 24-10777 CYNTHIA COONES, Individually, andasSurvivingParentand …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Former Death Row Prisoner Whose Case Changed the Law Dies in Texas by A prisoner at the center of the 2007 decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) to raise the bar for executing people who are mentally ill died in June 2025. Scott Panetti, 67, who was …
News in Brief by Alabama: Elmore County Jail guard Lita Williams, 57, was arrested and charged with first-degree promoting prison contraband on May 21, 2025, the Wetumpka Herald reported. Her arrest followed discovery of a cellphone in a jail cell during a routine search two weeks prior. Data from the …
Article • July 15, 2025 • from PLN July, 2025
Over One-Third of Older Texas Prisoners Suffering Cognitive Impairment by Matthew Clarke A recently published study of cognitive impairment (CI) among older prisoners held by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) showed that over 35%&mdash;more than 1 in 3&mdash;suffered from some form of CI. The study used a random …
News in Brief by Alabama: Kadarius Shermaine Todd, 28, a new guard still on probationary status at the Madison County Jail, was fired on April 4, 2025, after allegedly attempting to smuggle contraband into the lockup. He was apprehended upon arrival to meet a contact with a package containing Suboxone, …
$2.4 Million Settlement Reached After Elderly Pretrial Detainee Strangled by Cellmate in San Antonio Jail by David Reutter Texas&rsquo; Bexar County agreed on April 22, 2024, to pay $2.4 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Curtis Raymond Smith, 66, who was killed just hours after his …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Seven TDCJ Prison Guards Arrested in Alleged Smuggling Ring by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on April 9, 2025, that arrest warrants were issued for seven guards at the Telford Unit who are accused of running a contraband smuggling ring at the prison. Seven search warrants were …
Fifth Circuit Reinstates Baha’i Texas Prisoner’s Dietary Claim by Matthew Clarke On September 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a summary judgment dismissing a prisoner&rsquo;s claim that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) refused to provide him a diet that conformed to …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Two Guards Arrested in Two Weeks at Texas Jail by Two jailers were arrested in two weeks at Texas&rsquo; Hays County Jail, beginning on April 25, 2025, when guard John Duran, 45, was accused of sending a detainee to shower and watching her bathe on surveillance video. An investigation was …
Texas Prison Heat Declared Unconstitutional by In a ruling on March 26, 2025, the federal court for the Western District of Texas agreed that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) was likely violating the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by holding most state prisoners in cells …
Texas Courts, Legislature at Odds over Executing Potentially Innocent Death Row Prisoner by Robert L. Roberson III was sentenced to death in Texas in 2003 for killing his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, whose death the previous year was attributed to &ldquo;shaken baby syndrome.&rdquo; Since then research has found symptoms attributed to …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A Jefferson County Jail guard was briefly abducted and assaulted by detainee Reontay Harley, 33, on January 13, 2025. WBMA in Birmingham said that after Harley took the unnamed guard hostage inside a cell, responding jail Extraction Unit guards rescued their fellow guard and restrained …
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