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Ad-Seg: Time In Isolation At Texas Prisons

MIDWAY (AP) – Behind the razor wire-topped fences of Ferguson prison and other Texas penitentiaries are 5,205 inmates branded the baddest of the bad — dubbed so devious they are locked in one-man...

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Family Files Suit Over Texas Inmates & Air Conditioning

An inmate waits for the bars to a dorm at a minimum-security facility in Texas to be opened. (credit: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers/Getty Images) NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas family has filed a...

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2012 Shaping Up As Deadly Year For Texas Prisons

HUNTSVILLE (AP) — With four months still remaining, 2012 is already the deadliest year in more than a decade in Texas prisons. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has reported 10 homicides this...

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Judge Lets Texas Keep Execution Drug Secret

AUSTIN (AP) - A Texas judge allowed state prison officials on Thursday to keep the identity of a new execution drug supplier secret despite new challenges to the state’s claim that making the name...

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Hundreds Of Offender GPS Alerts Take Days To Clear

TARRANT COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) - Kidnappers, sex offenders, and murderers. You may think convicted criminals out on parole are forced to wear GPS monitors and tracked all the time. But the CBS 11 I-Team...

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Garland Parole Officer Accepted Money From Parolee

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) –  A parole officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting money from a parolee under her supervision, according to the U. S. Attorney’s Office in...

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Dallas County Prison Inmate Dies After Apparent Fight With Cellmate

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter AMARILLO (AP) — A Texas prison system inmate has died following an apparent fight with his cellmate. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Tuesday said the...

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Texas Allowing Transgender Inmates To Start Hormone Therapy

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Your tax dollars are now going to pay for Texas inmates to begin hormone therapy to manage “intersex conditions and Gender Dysphoria.” A...

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Texas Executes Man For Killing 12-Year-Old Boy

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man was executed Wednesday for the 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the convicted killer said he drank after...

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Texas Bans Inmate Online Profiles Managed By Others

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HOUSTON (AP) – Texas prison officials are cracking down on social media accounts managed for inmates by friends or relatives while the prisoners themselves have no...

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Texas Prison Agency Reviewing Feds Ban Of Execution Drug

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to back down from its decision to block the Texas prison system from importing a drug that could...

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Texas Floodwaters Recede, Inmates Bused Back To Units

Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter ROSHARON (AP) — About 2,400 inmates evacuated last month from Texas prisons near the rain-swollen Brazos River have been returned to their regular lockups. The...

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Inmate Executed In Texas For Corrections Officer’s Death

Texas death chamber execution gurney. (credit: AP) HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate convicted in the death of a prison guard was executed Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his...

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Texas Executes Man For Ex-Girlfriend’s Killing

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A 64-year-old Dallas man on death row for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend while he was out on parole for killing his estranged wife has been executed in Texas. William...

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Convicted Fort Worth Killer Set To Die This Month Loses Appeal

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has refused to stop the execution later this month of a Fort Worth man on death row for the shooting deaths of a 5-year-old girl and her...

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Fort Worth Gang Member To Die For Killing Girl, Grandmother

HUNTSVILLE (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Ice cream and slices of a Hannah Montana-themed birthday cake were being served at a 9-year-old girl’s party outside a Fort Worth apartment when a man dressed in black got...

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Fort Worth Man Executed For Killing 2 At Children’s Party

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executed a 31-year-old prisoner condemned for killing a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting at a child’s birthday party in Fort Worth a decade...

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Texas Executes Man For 1979 Rape, Murder

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prisoner accused of four killings and at least nine rapes was executed Wednesday for a 1979 rape and murder in Houston that went unsolved for two decades until he...

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Texas Court Seeks To Clear Up Whether Inmate Wants To Die

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals asked a trial court Wednesday to determine whether a 51-year-old prisoner sentenced to die for a corrections officer’s death during a 2007...

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Convicted Killer, Former Officer Roy Oliver Sent To Prison In Huntsville

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Roy Oliver, the former Balch Springs police officer convicted of murder, has been taken to prison by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to start serving his...

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Texas Guard Charged With Assaulting Prisoner Who Later Died

HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A Texas prison guard is charged with assaulting an inmate who later died from his injuries. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Tuesday that D’Andre Glasper, who resigned...

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Ex-Texas Parole Officer Faces Up To 20 Years Over Payoffs

BEAUMONT (AP) — A former Southeast Texas parole officer faces up to 20 years in federal prison for accepting payoffs in exchange for letting other people provide urine samples for some convicts....

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Man Who Tortured, Drowned Ex-Roommate Set To Die Wednesday

UPDATE: Troy Clark was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. Wednesday. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who taunted a jury to sentence him to death is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening for...

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Texas Executes Man In Torture, Drowning Of Ex-Roommate

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate who taunted a jury to sentence him to death was executed Wednesday evening for torturing and drowning an East Texas woman in his bathtub and then stuffing her...

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Texas Inmate Executed For Killing Girlfriend In ‘Jealous Rage’ In 2000

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed Thursday evening for fatally running over his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago. It was the state’s second execution in as many...

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Texas Supreme Court To Hear Case Over ID Of Texas Execution Drug Supplier

HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court reversed itself Friday by granting the state’s request to review a case dealing with the disclosure of an execution drug supplier that officials have fought for...

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Inmate Robert Jennings Executed For 1988 Murder Of Houston Police Officer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A 61-year-old Texas inmate was executed Wednesday evening for killing a Houston police officer in 1988. Robert Jennings received lethal injection for the deadly...

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Texas Bans Clergy From Executions After SCOTUS Ruling Regarding Patrick...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas prisons will no longer allow clergy in the death chamber after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of a man who argued his religious freedom would be...

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Wesley Mathews Transferred To Texas Prison To Serve Life Sentence For Death...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department confirms Wesley Mathews was transferred from the Dallas County Jail to the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shortly...

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2 Texas Prisons To Close Due To Inmate Population Decline, Understaffing

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Texas will close two of its more than 100 state prisons amid a decline in recent years in the incarcerated population and serious understaffing at some facilities. The closures...

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Coronavirus In Texas: Prison Inmates Making Protective Masks

The prison factories are making up to 20,000 masks a day. They are also producing plastic face masks.

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