prisons - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/prisons/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Thu, 29 May 2025 22:25:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 prisons - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/prisons/ 32 32 103504436 A bill to air-condition all Texas prisons likely to fail again in the Senate | State | dentonrc.com https://houstonnewmedia.org/a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate-state-dentonrc-com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate-state-dentonrc-com Thu, 29 May 2025 22:25:06 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=fd309a84fbe4f4394627c717f1139047 Inmates shuffle past new fans in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Memorial Unit in Brazoria County in July 2017. The prison was called the ...

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]]> 960055 A bill to air-condition all Texas prisons likely to fail again in the Senate – Odessa American https://houstonnewmedia.org/a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate-odessa-american/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate-odessa-american Thu, 29 May 2025 15:31:03 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=15cb61289c69dfa5487f6aa4cb18079c ... Brazoria County on July 12, 2017. The prison was called the Darrington Unit until 2023. Credit: Jolie McCullough/The Texas Tribune. By Stephen ...

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]]> 959625 A bill to air-condition all Texas prisons likely to fail again in the Senate https://houstonnewmedia.org/a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bill-to-air-condition-all-texas-prisons-likely-to-fail-again-in-the-senate Thu, 29 May 2025 10:13:44 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=4c425ceb995336804b08a1597071ada7 Inmates shuffle past new fans in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Memorial Unit in Brazoria County on July 12, 2017. The prison was called ...

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]]> 959147 Texas’ plantation prisons: Inside a 200-year history of forced labor shrouded in secrecy https://houstonnewmedia.org/texas-plantation-prisons-inside-a-200-year-history-of-forced-labor-shrouded-in-secrecy-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-plantation-prisons-inside-a-200-year-history-of-forced-labor-shrouded-in-secrecy-2 Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:22:23 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=ae4ad5f3acfb47e833b72d0d6dd8e1a8 Frank Pinkard stood before six legislators from the Texas Penitentiary Investigating Committee at the Clemens State Prison Farm in Brazoria County, ...

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]]> 797037 Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Forced Labor Shrouded in Secrecy https://houstonnewmedia.org/texas-plantation-prisons-inside-a-200-year-history-of-forced-labor-shrouded-in-secrecy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-plantation-prisons-inside-a-200-year-history-of-forced-labor-shrouded-in-secrecy Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:11:56 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=e79e3034542c8e3ce36c5f828002a6d8 ... Brazoria County, revealing scars left from 39 lashes. Even after a year and a half, the braided rivulets ran over his thighs and buttocks, rising ...

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]]> 794522 Texas Prisons Embrace Rehabilitation: A Glimpse into Efforts for Inmate Reform and Skill … https://houstonnewmedia.org/texas-prisons-embrace-rehabilitation-a-glimpse-into-efforts-for-inmate-reform-and-skill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-prisons-embrace-rehabilitation-a-glimpse-into-efforts-for-inmate-reform-and-skill Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:53:43 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=686691f3fb7c9b38196aa524c4e5f7de Huntsville and Sugar Land are iconic for their historical and, at times, haunted prison facilities, yet not all prisons within the state share this ...

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]]> 730287 Georgia prisons severely understaffed, DA says – YouTube https://houstonnewmedia.org/georgia-prisons-severely-understaffed-da-says-youtube/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=georgia-prisons-severely-understaffed-da-says-youtube Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:05:34 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=8dbce561cfd2fa7fbb83d42bb448931b 5:37 · Go to channel · Missouri City teen killed in car accident survives and thrives. FOX 26 Houston•920K views · 33:26 · Go to channel · Day with ...

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]]> 719117 All Texas prisons under lockdown due to rising inmate violence – Houston Chronicle https://houstonnewmedia.org/all-texas-prisons-under-lockdown-due-to-rising-inmate-violence-houston-chronicle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=all-texas-prisons-under-lockdown-due-to-rising-inmate-violence-houston-chronicle Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:05:53 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=74ebf761717ca61365df43d69572323b Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison, Darrington Unit, in unincorporated Brazoria County. Houston redirected a $4 million contract ...

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]]> 655771 Bureau of Prisons Employee Charged with Violating the Civil Rights of an Inmate Resulting in Death https://houstonnewmedia.org/bureau-of-prisons-employee-charged-with-violating-the-civil-rights-of-an-inmate-resulting-in-death/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bureau-of-prisons-employee-charged-with-violating-the-civil-rights-of-an-inmate-resulting-in-death Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:53:21 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=6a0dfc1b9dea5cd2c50c7d55e53207c4 Ang Kagawaran ng Katarungan ay Nag-anunsyo ng Pinal na Resolusyon ng Usapin sa Mga Karapatan sa Pag-access sa Wika sa Fort Bend County, Texas.

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]]> 639367 How prisons shaped the South’s music history – Scalawag Magazine https://houstonnewmedia.org/how-prisons-shaped-the-souths-music-history-scalawag-magazine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-prisons-shaped-the-souths-music-history-scalawag-magazine Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:05:40 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=f3164f4ccda980b2161b54889db9f6dc ... of Black Southerners meant that imprisonment in brutal institutions such as Parchman Farm, Sugar Land, and Angola was frighteningly normal.

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]]> 610628 Texas prisons cancel visitation following escape – Houston Chronicle https://houstonnewmedia.org/texas-prisons-cancel-visitation-following-escape-houston-chronicle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-prisons-cancel-visitation-following-escape-houston-chronicle Sat, 14 May 2022 23:43:55 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=f0f0ce719bbb143563459f5dda28a9f0 More than a third of Texas criminal justice facilities have canceled visitation after an incarcerated man escaped during a bus transport in Leon ...

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]]> 323228 Deadly fires in Texas prisons, and Elizabeth McIngvale’s mental health journey (May 9, 2022) https://houstonnewmedia.org/deadly-fires-in-texas-prisons-and-elizabeth-mcingvales-mental-health-journey-may-9-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deadly-fires-in-texas-prisons-and-elizabeth-mcingvales-mental-health-journey-may-9-2022 Mon, 09 May 2022 12:00:47 +0000 https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2022/05/09/424754/deadly-fires-in-texas-prisons-and-elizabeth-mcingvales-mental-health-journey-may-9-2022/ On Monday's show: For more than a decade, the Texas prison system has fallen short on state fire safety standards. The Marshall Project’s Keri Blakinger tells us about concerns raised over unsafe wiring and inadequate alarm systems leading to death...

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]]> 317777 US federal prisons on lockdown after 2 Texas inmates killed – Chron https://houstonnewmedia.org/us-federal-prisons-on-lockdown-after-2-texas-inmates-killed-chron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-federal-prisons-on-lockdown-after-2-texas-inmates-killed-chron Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:57:22 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=d47125526042291dba8586bc3ab014de Here's what those Sugar Land Space Cowboys jerseys look like ... 31, 2022, during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas.

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]]> 245734 Changing racist name of prisons is ‘like putting lipstick on a pig’ – Workers World https://houstonnewmedia.org/changing-racist-name-of-prisons-is-like-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-workers-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-racist-name-of-prisons-is-like-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-workers-world Sat, 25 Sep 2021 02:03:45 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=194dad932593702647a53aa76275c652 Robin Cole, a Sugar Land resident and president of S.O.J.E.S., said, “We have to get justice for the Sugar Land 95, their unimaginable lives of forced labor, ...

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]]> 173250 Changing racist name of prisons is ‘like putting lipstick on a pig’ – Workers World https://houstonnewmedia.org/changing-racist-name-of-prisons-is-like-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-workers-world-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-racist-name-of-prisons-is-like-putting-lipstick-on-a-pig-workers-world-2 Sat, 25 Sep 2021 02:03:45 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=7a36c5c26cbdf69c69407fe4b6243c53 Caption: W. F. Ramsey prison farm in Brazoria County, Texas, 1965 ... Robin Cole, a Sugar Land resident and president of S.O.J.E.S., said, “We have to get ...

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]]> 173260 Tuesday’s Show: COVID-19 In Texas Prisons, And Council Member Amy Peck (May 5, 2020) https://houstonnewmedia.org/tuesdays-show-covid-19-in-texas-prisons-and-council-member-amy-peck-may-5-2020/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tuesdays-show-covid-19-in-texas-prisons-and-council-member-amy-peck-may-5-2020 Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:45 +0000 https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/05/05/368718/tuesdays-show-covid-19-in-texas-prisons-and-council-member-amy-peck-may-5-2020/ On Tuesday's Houston Matters: We learn more about how COVID-19 is showing up in Texas prisons. Also this hour: Houston City Council Member Amy Peck answers your questions. Then Houstonians talk about the music that matters to them in Volume 3 of the Ho...

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]]> 41705 Rush Urges Bureau of Prisons to Release Elderly, Nonviolent Prisoners to Mitigate Coronavirus Risk to Inmates https://houstonnewmedia.org/rush-urges-bureau-of-prisons-to-release-elderly-nonviolent-prisoners-to-mitigate-coronavirus-risk-to-inmates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rush-urges-bureau-of-prisons-to-release-elderly-nonviolent-prisoners-to-mitigate-coronavirus-risk-to-inmates Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:39:58 +0000 http://stylemagazine.com/news/2020/mar/26/rush-urges-bureau-prisons-release-elderly-nonviole/ Rush Urges Bureau of Prisons to Release Elderly, Nonviolent Prisoners to Mitigate Coronavirus Risk to Inmates

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