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16 Aug 2009, 3:05 am
The court similarly rejected complaints regarding the closure of a portion of a mosque at New York's Green Haven Correctional Facility.AP last week reported on a settlement in a case brought by a former Muslim prisoner against federal prison officials in Illinois charging that guards had placed his Quran on a spit-stained floor and had mistreated him when he complained to authorities. [read post]
22 Jun 2006, 10:52 am
Update: A reader points out:A prisoner escaped and killed two guards in the Dirksen in 1992, before being gunned down in the driveway out of the building parking lot, so that probably looms large, too. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 6:04 am
"Pay to play in Harris juvie appointments? [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm
"Marie found herself fighting to bring justice to the legal process and to bring humanity not only to prisoners on death row but to the guards and wardens as well. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 4:16 pm
Harris had worked in state correctional facilities on an off for about 12 years since 1995, according to state records.His jobs included two stints at the once-troubled Texas Youth Commission, which was overhauled several years ago in wake of a widespread sex abuse scandal involving guards attacking juvenile inmates.Harris bounced around to several prisons around the state, working mostly in food service. [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
As has, hopefully, the "jail as profit center" myth among Texas county commissioners.See related Grits posts:Private prison bubble bursting: Empty, speculative jails in Texas Privatizing Harris County Jail would save money by cutting guard pay, benefits Jailing for profit spurs inmate releases in two Texas counties When fewer inmates is a big problem: Perverse incentives at the McLennan County Jail Jones County pays for empty jail as detention bubble… [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 4:39 am
Jan. 8: Jenny has a breakdown and supposedly hits a guard, who hits her back. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 6:05 am
Harris claimed in this case that Rikers prison guards assaulted him and ruptured his eardrum. [read post]
2 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
But Kwaneta Harris, a 51-year-old doing time in another central Texas prison, said guards have grilled her about why someone her age still needs pads and tampons. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 4:31 pm
Ops. and Human Rights). [79]Id. at 41 (statement of Harry Wu, Executive Dir., The Laogai Research Foundation). [80]Id. at 42. [81]Repression, supra note 10, at 10. [82]Organs, supra note 4, at 42 (statement of Harry Wu, Executive Dir., The Laogai Research Foundation). [83]Id. [84]Id. at 42-43. [85]Id. at 43. [86]Brown, supra note 1, at 1071-72. [87]Id. at 1072. [88]Organs, supra note 4, at 43 (statement of Harry Wu, Executive Dir., The Laogai Research Foundation). [89]Id.… [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 9:37 pm
At least not if it's a prison guard's. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 8:57 am
Just a few bits of telling data about Texas' criminal justice system compiled from prior Grits posts:Proportion of Texas adults under control of the criminal justice system (in prison, jail, on probation or on parole): 1 in 21Increase in Texas' overall population 1978-2004: 67%Increase in Texas' prison population 1978-2004: 573%Number of felonies on the books in Texas: 2,324Number of Texas felonies involving oysters: 11Percentage of TDCJ inmates convicted of drug… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:28 am
"Harris County loses state lead in executions," is the title of Lise Olsen's December 28 report for the Houston Chronicle.Long the state's leader in sending convicts to death row, Harris County has fallen behind both Bexar and Tarrant counties in the number of death sentences it imposes, an analysis of eight years of records shows.Texas' final death sentence of the year came eight days before Christmas for inmate Jerry Martin, condemned for slaying a… [read post]
9 Jan 2020, 11:51 am
“Clemency,” a new film starring Alfre Woodard as a prison warden, explores the brutalizing effect the death penalty has on everyone else in the system — the wardens, prison guards, chaplains, defense lawyers, and their families, as well as the families of the victims and the condemned. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am
And we need look no further than the largest (Harris) to see that Democrats running as "progressive" don't necessarily live up to any meaningful usage of that term.2) The debacle around the city park in Eagle Pass clearly is an intentional provocation by Greg Abbott, politicizing DPS and the National Guard to obstruct the Border Patrol, ironically. [read post]
22 Sep 2013, 10:32 am
The former just means we don't go out of our way to make corpses and to turn prison guards into killers. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 9:12 am
I’ll bet they had a Texas-sized feast in the prison guards’ break room that night. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 10:07 am
Simmons-Harris (2002). [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 8:41 am
In other words, TDCJ knew full well what the man needed and the guard denied him, anyway. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 12:21 pm
Franklin alleges prison guards abridged his "right to be supplied" with T-shirts. [read post]
