Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride.
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- Blawg Wisdom
- Evan Smith, Editor-in-chief and publisher, The Texas Tribune
- The Austin Chronicle
- Emily Bazelon, Slate
- San Antonio Current
- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
- Erica Grieder, The Economist
- Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly
- Doug Berman, Sentencing Law & Policy
- Marie Gottschalk, author of 'Caught'
- DallasBlog
- Scott Medlock, Texas Civil Rights Project
- Solomon Moore, NY Times criminal justice correspondent
- Donald Lee, Texas Conference of Urban Counties
-Attorney Bob Mabry, Conroe
- Corey Yung, Sex Crimes Blog
Tommy Adkisson,
Bexar County Commissioner
- Dirty Third Streets
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
David Jennings, aka "Big Jolly"
John Bradley,
Former Williamson County District Attorney, now former Attorney General of Palau
- To the People
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7 comments:
When is "60 Minutes" going to do a rip-roarin' expose on this? If it was senior citizens dying...
How does that compare with other high incarceration states like California, I wonder.
And?
If broken down by suicide by cop, inmate on inmate, use of force confrontations, those that overdosed, etc...you might make a story. Otherwise this list tells readers very little.
@Elvis, ask the AG to put more detail online if you want more data, that's hardly my doing.
Otherwise, this wasn't a "story" but a fact bite. I record such things for my own purposes, not your edification.
And of the 79 pages of names how many are suicides? They appear out of control at the James V. Allred Unit in Iowa Park - some argue conditions have become deplorable there. The food, eliminating weekend rec time and showering due to UN-prescribed staff-shuffling to accommodate pay cycles for staff in Ad-Seg. That's 48 hours straight - the latest hanging death there occurred in Seg. (they claim staff shortages)
Twitch - Entropy
Ok, so an average of about 360 inmates die per year in Texas. The spread sheet doesn't tell why/how the inmate died. Old age, suicide, AIDS, Hep. C, cancer, renal failure, cardiac arrest, viral infection(s)? Gotta tell all of the story, not just the sensational part.
File your complaint with the Attorney General, 3:11, they're the ones who published the incomplete data.
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