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Texas prisons and jails are recruiting more teenagers to shore up guard shortage
Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal justice careers.
Texas’ prison guard shortfall makes it harder for inmates to get reprieve from extreme indoor heat, critics say
About 25% of Texas’ correctional officer positions are unfilled. Inmates say the shortages make it harder for them to get respite during hot summer months.
Texas Counties are Resorting to Teenagers to Solve Prison and Jail Guard Shortages
Smith County and Randall County officials have partnered with local high schools to house training programs that allows students to become correctional officers
Texas’ prison guard shortfall makes it harder for inmates to get reprieve from extreme indoor heat, critics say
Attorneys for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who are trying to dissuade a federal judge from forcing the state to cool its un-air conditioned prisons argue in an ongoing lawsuit that the ...
Texas prison inmates swelter amid persistent guard staffing shortages, critics say
Prisoners and reform advocates say persistent staffing shortages has left many state prison without enough guards to mitigate extreme indoor heat during
Staffing shortages makes it harder for Texas inmates to deal with extreme indoor heat conditions, critics say
SEATTLE - The prison system in Texas continues to be under scrutiny over its handling of hot temperatures during summer months that has put inmates at risk. As reported by The Latin Times in August, Texas is one of a few states facing lawsuits over its dangerously hot prisons.
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West Texas private prison to shut down after Tarrant County ends contract to outsource prisoners
The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility failed a state safety inspection last year. Even though it passed a reinspection, ...
Rapper drugged and sex trafficked teens in Texas, feds say. ‘Took away her childhood’
For several young girls, he breathed life into his poorly crafted lyrics – providing drugs, starving and trafficking them for ...
Texas man sentenced to 40 months in prison for kicking cat like a 'football field goal'
A Beaumont man has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for animal crushing after kicking a cat in a video posted on ...
A Texas man is sentenced for kicking a cat that prosecutors say was later set on fire
A federal judge has sentenced a Texas man to more than three years in prison for kicking a cat that court records say was ...
Hundreds of Harris County inmates to be moved from closing west Texas private jail to Louisiana
Hundreds of Harris County Jail inmates will be moved out of a West Texas private prison in the coming week after the facility ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designates Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as terrorist organization
Gov. Greg Abbott and state officials labeled the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as a "foreign terrorist organization," ...
North Texas anesthesiologist convicted of tampering with IV bags to be sentenced
Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz, who was found guilty of tampering with IV bags earlier this year, will be sentenced on Wednesday.