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Phone blast for care for Chican@ Political Prisoner Xinachtli

#PoliticalPrisoners #PhoneBlast #Xinachtli #TDCJ #Texas #Prisons

A Texas prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing a 27-year-old correctional officer from the Houston area in 2023. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2025/06/18/524309/texas-prisoner-pleads-guilty-to-capital-murder-in-2023-death-of-correctional-officer-from-houston-area/

#Crime #CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #CapitalMurder #JovianMotley #Lovelady #Tdcj #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #TexasPrisons

The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/10/17/503333/texas-supreme-court-halts-execution-of-man-in-shaken-baby-case-after-lawmakers-last-minute-appeal/

#CriminalJustice #News #Execution #Huntsville #RobertRoberson #Tdcj

The head of the Texas prisons department said he wants to install air conditioning in every state lockup — he just doesn’t have the cash to do it.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2024/08/05/495600/too-much-heat-not-enough-funding-state-of-texas-defends-lack-of-prison-a-c-in-federal-court/

#News #Texas #CriminalJustice #DistrictCourt #FederalCourt #FederalJudge #Heat #KUT #KUTNews #Legislature #Prison #Prisons #Tdcj #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #TexasLegislature #TexasPolitics

Harris and other major Texas counties say their local jails are backed up with convicted state prisoners. The state says it's following the law.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/04/24/484385/texas-jails-have-an-overcrowding-issue-is-the-state-making-it-worse-by-delaying-prison-transfers/

#CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #InDepth #Local #News #Texas #BEXARCOUNTY #DallasCounty #HarrisCountyJail #Jail #Overcrowding #Prison #StateTransfers #TarrantCountyJail #Tdcj #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #Understaffing