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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...
View ArticleTexas 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...
View ArticleEx-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....
View ArticleMan 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...
View ArticleTexas 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...
View ArticleTexas 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...
View Article2 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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