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Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Prison Cover-Up

    Prison Breakdown

  • News

    March 6, 2008

    A Prison Cover-up During Hurricane Rita

    For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2008

    Sara Hickman: Injecting Music Into the Death Penalty Debate

    For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    Michael Vick Gets 23 Months. Too Bad He Didn’t Kill a Human.

    For days after the storm, inmates in Beaumont lived without A/C, electricity or hot meals. Press releases kept saying everything inside was fine. Guards and prisoners agree — that was nothing but B.S.

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    Gang Lite?

    A new kind of gang in Texas and Houston promises protection but no lifelong commitment

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2007

    The Killing Joke

    A new kind of gang in Texas and Houston promises protection but no lifelong commitment

  • Culture

    June 14, 2007

    Mexican-American Culture

    A new kind of gang in Texas and Houston promises protection but no lifelong commitment

  • Culture

    June 14, 2007

    "Julie Green: The Last Supper"

    Julie Green's "Last Supper" will take away your appetite

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2006

    Caged Heat

    Julie Green's "Last Supper" will take away your appetite

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Penal Violations

    Texas prisons say they can’t allow condoms because they don’t allow sex. So they don’t need condoms. They just need $12 million a year to treat all the HIV-positive prisoners.

  • Film

    February 23, 2006

    Suspended Sentence

    After Innocence probes life following a wrongful conviction

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    The Fix Is In

    UTMB is under fire in Dallas for its jail health care. So why is Houston ready to install it here?

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    No Pain, No Gain

    Our solution for saving Texas's claim to capital punishment fame

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Ill Will

    A parolee fights leukemia -- and the constraints of ankle monitors

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    No Way Out

    How can homeless sex offenders comply with the registration laws?

  • News

    October 14, 2004

    Parts Unknown

    Did Donnie Riley kill Tarron Dixon, or was he shooting at someone else in a different Houston neighborhood that night 13 years ago?

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    After Oprah

    Ted Poe got the spotlight for a shame-based sentencing -- the victim says it was a sham

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    The Last Word

    They've fought for justice for nine years, but time is running out

  • Film

    May 27, 2004

    The Unlikely Lambs

    Carandiru reveals the human side of Brazilian prisoners, then leads us to their slaughter

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Captive Market

    Companies complain that they can't compete against convict labor

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    The Icebox Revisited

    Houston had one of its most shocking race murders 45 years ago. But exactly whose tragedy was it?

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Firing Line

    The new tough-talking probation director has ousted aides, but can he improve services?

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Writer's Block

    Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Champion of the Underdog

    Texas Defender Service

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Doing Time

    With JC in the TDCJ

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Jail Hell

    Even as inmate James Mitchell was dying, Montgomery County told his relatives he'd be fine

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Blessed and Bewildered

    Recent debacles demonstrate why District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal needs more than a moustache to match the legacy of Johnny Holmes

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Prison Break?

    Critics wonder if massive TDCJ cuts will be a prelude to privatization

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Ghost Dance

    Activists still wonder if Standing Deer died in a plot by the feds or Indian foes — or for no reason at all

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Bench Blues

    The judiciary starts scrambling after state cuts in visiting judges

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    Mail Sacked

    The state says Texas prison inmates can't write to one another

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    On the Defense

    Internal feuds and investigations cripple the agency representing accused convicts

  • News

    January 9, 2003

    A Guarded Past

    Texas's impressive new prison museum engages in a little escapism of its own

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Tattle Tales

    The use of jailhouse snitches has been debated for ages, especially since they don't always tell the truth

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    The Devil You Say

    Was Jeffery Prible the cold-blooded murderer of an entire family? Or the gullible target of an opportunistic jailhouse informant?

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Doing Justice

    Plus: Olympic Bid; Allah 1, Christ 0; Paris Is Burning?

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    Justice for Some

    Just who is a victim? After flexing its muscles to reform the justice system, the victims’ rights movement suffers growing pains over divisive issues.

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    Hard on the Yard

    A law leaves some sex offenders banned from their own attorneys' offices

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    An Absolute Maybe

    There's little doubt that Johnnie Bernal was not a really good guy. The question remains, though, how bad was he?

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Lethal Legacy

    Yates isn't dying to prove the equity of Harris County executions

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    Hanging Up

    TDCJ finally halts monitoring of attorney-client phone calls -- sort of

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Sick Kids

    For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

  • Music

    October 11, 2001

    Angola Bound

    The Neville Brothers have toiled long and hard to win freedom from prisons of the body and mind.

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Face To Face

    The murder of their loved one haunted Amy and Linda White until a Texas prison mediation program brought them together with the killer. Now they've all got their answers -- and unique justice.

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Drug Resistant

    Harris County jailers are in no hurry to hand out meds to inmates with AIDS. Inmates claim this and other lockup practices endanger their lives.

  • News

    August 23, 2001

    Prose and Cons

    Crusading convicts turned the docile Echo newspaper into a voice for prison reform. Fellow inmates cheered, but alarmed TDCJ officials preferred silence.

  • News

    August 9, 2001

    Lost Boys

    Judy Walker saw one son die in prison and his twin sentenced to life for shooting a cop. The prison autopsy says Reginald died of natural causes. But his mother says it was retaliation for Robert's actions that got his brother killed.

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Executing the Truth in Ads

    Just who is behind the McVeigh ads is called into question

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Rejected

    Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Injecting Fun into Death Row

    If your condemned convicts survive, you thrive in this game

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