Texas Counties Waste Millions by Jailing Defendants Charged with Citation-Eligible Misdemeanors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2019, social justice advocacy nonprofit Texas Appleseed released an analysis of jail bookings in a dozen of the most populous counties throughout Texas. The study examined the most serious charge that …
Local Taxpayers Face Higher Taxes, Crime Rates Due to Death Penalty Trials by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Taxpayers in Texas counties where death penalty cases are held get hit with a double whammy: Not only do they face higher property taxes to pay for the trials, they also have …
Prescott v. Bexar County, TX, Complaint, shooting death, 2019 Case 5:19-cv-01392-JKP Document 1 Filed 12/02/19 Page 1 of 16 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO DIVISION CHRISTOPHER PRESCOTT & RUBI PRESCOTT, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF KAMERON PRESCOTT, …
Woods v. Cenikor Foundation, TX , Class Action Complaint, Withholding Wages, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-04569 Document 1 Filed on 11/21/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 9 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION ANTHONY WOODS, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated vs. PLAINTIFFS …
Guard and 17 Incarcerees Indicted for Violent Robberies at Texas Youth Lockup by On October 9, 2019, one guard and 17 juveniles were indicted in connection with multiple violent robberies of juveniles incarcerated at the McLennan County State Juvenile Facility in Mart, Texas, just east of Waco. The grand jury …
Fifth Circuit Terminates Consent Decree for Muslim Services in Texas Prisons by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 2, 2019, a strongly divided three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion terminating the consent decree in Brown v. Collier, which allowed Muslim prisoners in the …
Texas Court Rules Force Feeding Detainee Is Necessary by Chad Marks by Chad Marks Ajay Kumar, a citizen of India, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) officials in New Mexico and later transfered to Texas. He began a hunger strike because, in his words, he wanted his freedom. ICE …
Investigations into Texas Jail Deaths Find Thousands of Guards Untrained, on Temporary Licenses by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An investigation by the Dallas Morning News into the Christmas Eve 2016 death of prisoner Andy Debusk at the Parker County jail revealed that not only did the guards at the …
Texas Civil Rights Project: Torture by Another Name - Solitary Confinement in Texas, 2019 Torture By Another Name Solitary Confinement in Texas OCTOBER 2019 Author: MEAGAN HARDING Senior Staff Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project Contributor: PETER STEFFENSEN Staff Attorney, Texas Civil Rights Project Acknowledgements We would like to thank all …
Roppolo v. Linthicum, et al., complaint, failure to correctly treat prisoner with Hepatitis C, 2019 Case 2:19-cv-00262 Document 1 Filed on 09/11/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI DIVISION MATTHEW ROPPOLO Plaintiff v. LANNETTE LINTHICUM, in her official capacity as …
Texas Prisoner’s Excessive Heat Death Reveals Continuing Danger by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled a lawsuit over excessive heat filed by prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit, by agreeing to air condition the facility and move heat-sensitive prisoners to cooler cells, …
Grassroots Leadership v. DHS, TX, Complaint, FOIA, 2019 Case 1:19-cv-00872-RP Document 1 Filed 09/09/19 Page 1 of 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS AUSTIN DIVISION GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP, Plaintiffs, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT, Defendants. § § § § § …
Texas Passes Laws to Preserve Dignity of Women Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke With the passage of House Bill 650, which Governor Greg Abbott has already signed into law, Texas took a first step toward protecting the dignity of women held in state prisons. There are more women …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Reply in Support of Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 35 Filed 08/26/19 Page 1 of 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KATHY R. SANCHEZ, Individually and as Dependent Administrator of, and on behalf …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Ptf's Response to Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 34 Filed 08/19/19 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KATHY R. SANCHEZ, individually and as dependent administrator of, and on …
Peña Arita v. United States of America, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death by Police Brutality, 2019 Case 7:19-cv-00288 Document 1 Filed on 08/18/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MCALLEN DIVISION ORLANDA DEL CARMEN PEÑA ARITA,§ Individually, as Next …
Sanchez v. Bell County, TX, Opposed Motion for Protective Order, Public Records Request, 2019 Case 6:19-cv-00221-ADA-JCM Document 33 Filed 08/12/19 Page 1 of 8 UNITEDSTATESDISTRICTCOURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISION KA THY R. SANCHEZ, Individually and as Dependent Administ rator of, and on behalf of, the EST ATE OF …
Preliminary Settlement in Lawsuit Against JPay Over Prison Video Calls Ending Early by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Oumer Salim, a resident of Colley­ville, Texas, wanted to communicate with his brother, who was in an Ohio state prison. The facility used JPay for video calling, at a cost of $9.90 …
Lawsuit Proceeds Over Death of Prisoner at Privately-Run Jail by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Michael Todd Sabbie, 35, died on July 22, 2015 at the Bi-State Jail, which sits astraddle the border between Texas and Arkansas. He left behind four children. U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven, in a 169-page …
TX Travis County RFP 2016 April 20, 2016 Dear Proposers: You are invited to submit proposals in accordance with the attached specifications packet, Request For Proposal (RFP)# P1604-002-SW, for Inmate Communications and Educational Services for Travis County, Texas. All proposals must be submitted with an Original and twelve (12) copies …
