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...
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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