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Texas lawmakers are pushing harsher criminal penalties while prison and jail populations soar
Texas lawmakers are pushing more than 100 bills to clamp down on crime, threatening to overcrowd the state’s jails and ...
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TDCJ admits they don't know the whereabouts of 5 inmates released for medical reasons, but won't identify them
HOUSTON - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice admits they have no idea if ... they required some sort of health care, 24-hour assisted living," said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers.
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Texas lawmakers scold juvenile justice department over scathing DOJ report
Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu criticized the department for treating an August 2024 federal report as “nothing.” ...
Dallas Morning News2d
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website. In Texas, from 1819 to 1923, people in Texas were put to death by hanging. In 1923, according to the Texas Department of Criminal ...
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Supreme Court of Texas chief justice highlights judge pay raises, bail reform in capitol speech
The new Texas Supreme Court chief justice wants state lawmakers to give ... while Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals judges make an even higher percentage of what district judges ...
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Supreme Court Justices Appear Narrowly Divided Over Death Row Prisoner Plea for DNA Testing
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, via Associated Press Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. appeared skeptical that DNA testing would change the outcome. “The DNA can’t show he wasn’t there ...
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Feds refer Texas’ Harvey funding discrimination case to Justice Department
"No other state has performed as efficiently and effectively as Texas in providing disaster recovery and mitigation funding to communities and residents." Buckingham said the Justice Department ...