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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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