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Prison guards at risk, union says

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov 23 2012, 10:27pm CST

Union leaders want better pay for the nearly 5,000 correctional officers working for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The agency lost about 500 guard positions after lawmakers slashed the state budget last ...

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The Economics of US Prisons

Source: Hacker News  |   Jun 19 2013, 11:26am CDT

The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations. What is perhaps most unsettling about this fun fact is that it is the American ta ...

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Texas Prison Cools Armory Not Living Space: Lawsuit Alleges 13 Heatstroke Deaths Due To Lack Of Air Conditioning

Source: Forbes  |   Jun 19 2013, 7:44am CDT

As many as 13 Texas prisoners died from heatstroke since 2007 according to a lawsuit that questions how administrators decided to allocate the much-valued commodity of conditioned air in oppressive Texas heat. Courthouse News Service has th ...

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"During the holidays, TDCJ employees aren't the only ones wishing they were at home ... Correctional officers have to be on high alert during the holidays because there is a greater risk of suicides and escapes throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's."


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Suffering inmates

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Columnist Bob Ray Sanders thinks we should step up to the plate for this group of thieves, drug users-dealers, con men and other felons by providing air-conditioned living quarters. Why would the honest, law-abi ...

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A South Texas county has been sued in federal court for the second time in a year over the sexual abuse of women in its jail. Also named in the lawsuit filed earlier this month in Corpus Christi are three form ...

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CN) - Texas jailers ran a "rape camp" where they "repeatedly raped and humiliated female inmates," and forced them to masturbate and sodomize male guards, and one another, two women claim in court. J. ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (TheBlaze/AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday is scheduled to consider whether an airborne fungus that occurs naturally in the San Joaquin Valley presents enough of a public health danger that thousands o ...

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No doubt about it, it gets hot in Texas in the summer. Any buildings without air-conditioning - like most state prisons - can get downright uncomfortable. But there is no constitutional right to cool air, and judge ...

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Source: Durango Texas  |   Jun 16 2013, 2:41pm CDT

There was a dark cloud hanging over the stunning skyline of beautiful downtown Fort Worth, this Father's Day Sunday in Texas, when I got myself some salubrious endorphin inducing aerobic stimulation via hill hiking in the Tandy ...

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Source: KHOU.com  |   Jun 15 2013, 4:32pm CDT

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Seven ex-jail guards from West Texas have been sentenced to federal prison for taking bribe from prisoners. An eighth former guard received three years of probation. The formers jailers were arrested and indicted in January. ...

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