Texas Prisons Close Amid Pandemic by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) shuttered its Wayne Scott Unit in Brazoria County on December 15, 2020. Its Neal Unit in Amarillo and Gurney Unit outside Palestine were also closed by the end of 2020. TDCJ said …
Texas Moves to Deny Housing for Released Prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Two facts concerning prison are apparent to those who have been there, as well as to their loved ones: assimilating into prison is difficult at best but re-assimilating back into society after release can be exponentially …
Cheek v. Hill County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Suicide, 2021 Case 6:21-cv-00396-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 04/22/21 Page 1 of 74 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION GWYNNE CHEEK, individually and as independent administrator of, and on behalf of, the ESTATE OF DAVID BRIAN …
New Research on Texas Diversionary Programs Shows Lower Crime Rates by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A new study using data from the Houston, Texas area shows that the use of diversionary programs results in overall lower crime, including among high-risk demographic groups. The study, “Diversion in the …
Texas Winter Storm Freezes Plumbing, Power and Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 14, 2021, a winter storm with temperatures far below freezing swept through Texas causing an unprepared electrical grid to falter and resulting in at least 57 deaths. The storm caused widespread power outages and …
COVID-19 Inspired Ban on Prison Visits in Texas Ends by Chad Marks by Chad Marks At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas prison officials stopped all visits in the prison system between prisoners and families. Stopping the visits seemed to have little effect on keeping both prisoners and staff …
Greedo Still Influencing From Texas Prison by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins His Texas ID card identifies him as Jason Jackson, Offender #2208297. The black ink etched in his skin and white clothing he must wear mark him as little different from 140,000 others in the state’s prison system, yet …
Roppolo v. Linthicum, TX, Settlement, HepC Treatment, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION MATTHEW ROPPOLO, ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. C.A. No. 2:19-CV-00262 DR. LANNETTE LINTHICUM, ET AL., Defendants. PRIVATE COMPROMISE AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT Subject to Final Approval, the following is …
News in Brief by Afghanistan: As fighting continued between Taliban forces and the Afghan military on September 3, 3020, both parties announced they had nearly completed a prisoner exchange negotiated the previous February. According to a report by Japan’s public broadcasting company, HNK, the Taliban said all 1,000 Afghan prisoners …
COVID-19: What Texas Must Do to Save Prisoners’ Lives by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By December 2020, despite calls to release or parole prisoners at risk of COVID-19 — especially the elderly — the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had reduced its prisoner count by only about 20,000, …
Prisoners Paid $2 Per Hour to Move COVID-19 Corpses in El Paso, Texas by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A Texas city has used jail prisoners to move bodies of COVID-19 victims into refrigerated trailers that served as temporary morgues, paying them $2 an hour to do the dangerous and …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Texas Jail Prisoner’s Suicide by On December 3, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the summary judgment dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the estate and children of a woman who committed suicide in the …
Carillo v. Buendia, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2021 Pagel of 5 H_ECEIVEO r.ou~ TYRitLEASE. WAIVER AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT TTJs JJo~Ji¾ierltcls!Ws48rth the terms and conditions of the Release, WaiVer and Settlement Agreement ("Agreement") between Releaser and Released Parties as herein defined. WHl:REAS "Releasor" means Armando Carrillo, Individually and as Representative of …
Estate of Barlow-Austin v. SouthWestern Correctional LLC, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case 5:20-cv-00146-RWS-JBB Document 16 Filed 01/11/21 Page 1 of 58 PageID #: 166 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TEXARKANA DIVISION MARY MARGARET MATHIS, individually and as Administrator of the ESTATE OF …
Tougher Than the Rest: No Criminal Justice Reform “Miracle” in Texas by Marie Gottschalk by Marie Gottschalk For more than a decade now, politicians and policymakers — from Barack Obama to Donald Trump — have lauded Texas as a model for criminal justice reform. They have praised the Lone Star …
Federal Lawsuit Claims Texas Jail Released Man When Medical Problems Became Too Much Trouble, Resulting in Coma by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Apparently, it’s easier to release someone from jail and dismiss the charges if their issues become too much trouble, according to a lawsuit filed by James Bagley …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
Glenewinkel v. Carvajal, TX, First Amended Class Action Complaint, Covid Response, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-02256-B Document 72 Filed 12/09/20 Page 1 of 16 PagelD 309 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT' FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DALLAS DIVISION Jay E. Glenewinkel et. al. Plaintiffs, § § § § v. Carvajal et. al, …
USCIS Not required to Travel to Prison to Administer Citizenship and Immigration Services by On December 8, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's dismissal of Miguel Angel Mendoza-Tarango mandamus claim under 28 U.S.C. 1915A(b)(l) seeking an order to compel United States Citizenship and …
Texas Disguising Deaths in Custody by Diana Claitor by Diana Claitor In 2012, a 53-year-old Black woman named Edwinta Deckard was arrested on a misdemeanor theft charge and held in the Nacogdoches County Jail where she died after three days. Her death was an ordeal of dehydration and trauma, as …
