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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
For cruelty's sake: Texas prisons lose money every year to keep prisoners picking cotton, other field crops
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Texas ended "convict leasing" - essentially hiring out prisoners as slave labor - just more than a century ago, but the prison sys...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
40% increase in cattle rustling followed 2009 penalty enhancement
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Grits readers are aware of my longstanding view that "enhancing" (read: increasing) criminal penalties for things that are already...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Saving TDCJ's bacon: Cool pigs vs. overheated inmates
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Though TDCJ wouldn't comment, the Huntsville Item has a followup story to Grits' revelation that the state prison agency has purch...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
TDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prisoners
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Grits noticed this short item about a vendor with whom the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has contracted to build six "swine bui...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Central Unit not 100% closed: Targeting prison closures based on economic, budget benefits
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The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported Friday evening (" Over a year after closure, state prison still runs some operations ,...
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