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  • Blogs

    July 4, 2011

    Wells Fargo Hit for Funding Allegedly Badly Run Private Texas Prison

    Wells Fargo hit by protests.​Wells Fargo just can't win: All the bank wants to do is make good on its underwriting of a private prison company with a history of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and record-tampering, and now a group called Texas United for Families wants the bank to pull out. Speci ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Montrose Murder

    Paul Broussard's killer, up for parole, may not be model prisoner.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Judge Samuel Kent: I Obstructed Justice In A Sex-Offense Case, But I'm No Sex Offender

    Sam Kent, in prison and splitting hairs​U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent, currently imprisoned in Florida, is asking a federal court to overturn his sentence because, he says, the court treated him as a sex offender."All sexual allegations against Sam Kent were dismissed by the prosecutor...Sam Ken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Everyone's a Critic: ACLU vs. Harris County vs. DOJ vs. HCJ

    ​The ACLU of Texas is criticizing Harris County's criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice's criticism of Harris County Jail. Hair Balls isn't sure who to criticize yet. In a press release, the state chapter's legal director calls County Attorney Vince Ryan's response to the DOJ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Oh, He's In Trouble Now: Death-Row Inmate Indicted For Cell-Phone Smuggling

    You might think you'd have enough troubles, sitting on Death Row waiting to be executed. Just wait until they indict you for smuggling in a cell phone.Where's the Innocence Project now, eh?You can just imagine the torture going through Richard Lee Tabler's mind as he ponders his fate on Death Ro ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2008

    Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

    Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    A Moon Swoon

    One Houston preacher gave up the cross for the cult

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Letters

    One Houston preacher gave up the cross for the cult

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Quarter Masters

    A bill changer is only the latest example of profiteering at the county jail

  • News

    October 25, 2001

    Letters

    Cell Medicine, Best Bamboozle?, Onward Christian Soldiers

  • News

    February 8, 2001

    Hard Knox

    In an ACLU test case on brutality, jurors side with state prison guards

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Graham's Goree Details

    The government stands Pat in its high-profile cases. And Pat pursues his freedom.

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Prisoners of Love

    Romance for these ex-fugitives hits hard times -- behind bars

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    From Cells to Souls

    Chuck Colson and his evangelical Christians team up with a local prison for a divine intervention program

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Party Lines

    A judge has serious hang-ups over state prisons listening in on inmate-attorney calls

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Final Passages

    The Reverend Carroll Pickett leaves a grim 15-year legacy of very personal ministry: Granting the last wishes of inmates, moments before their execution

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Letters

    Brutality Behind Bars, Tall Tales, Dirty Airy

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Codes of Silence

    In prison, getting involved can mean permanent isolation

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Unnecessary Roughness

    Inmate Mark Knox claims Texas prison guards brutalized him. The ACLU fears that in an expanding and unwieldy TDCJ system Knox is far from alone.

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    Job Insecurity

    For 13 hours, guard Jeanette Bledsoe wondered if she would see one more murder inside prison walls -- her own. Now she wants to make sure TDCJ protects those who protect us from society's rejects.

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000
  • News

    August 10, 2000

    CanCell That Subscription

    Texas Monthly locks out inmate readers

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Death Row Show

    The media makes causes of more and more capital murder convicts. Meanwhile, John Albert Burks dies almost unnoticed, just another inmate moving along on the efficient execution assembly line of Texas justice.

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    Hanging with Mr. X

    Quanell comes on strong at Graham's execution, then vanishes

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Let's Make A Deal

    Convicted felons Mike and Pat Graham are at it again, trading allegations for favors

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    Letters From the Inside

    Ricardo Lara spent 19 years in Texas prisons. He got out the other day.

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Run to Ground

    Inmate Terry Banks broke out of jail in Missouri, prison guard Lynette Barnett by his side. They disappeared for seven weeks - until the law caught up with them in a Victoria County, Texas, trailer park.

  • News

    January 27, 2000
  • News

    November 25, 1999

    Captive Market

    Robbery suspects may call from jail, but the county and Ma Bell are the ones making out like bandits

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Cell Phones

    Not even prison officials can silence the irrepressible King of Con

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    Media Row on Death Row

    Will proposed media rules stifle coverage of convicts facing execution?

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Trouble in Mind

    Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    Making a Point

    Rodney Hulin died after hanging himself in prison. Three years later, his family gets some money from the state.

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    Fugitive Justice

    Gary Robert Williams's violent career began spectacularly 29 years ago. This is the story of how one determined U.S. marshal brought it to an end.

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    The Special Needs of Frank Gonzales Jr.

    The Texas parole board let him out to die; instead, he got involved in a killing.

  • Culture

    June 4, 1998

    The Reformist School

    The Texas parole board let him out to die; instead, he got involved in a killing.

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Keeping the King Quiet

    The Texas parole board let him out to die; instead, he got involved in a killing.

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    The Further Adventures of King Con

    Yet again, Steven Russell bluffed his way out of prison. And yet again, he got caught.

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Following the Money

    Yet again, Steven Russell bluffed his way out of prison. And yet again, he got caught.

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Critical Diagnosis

    If you think your HMO is bad, check out what Texas has created for its prison inmates

  • News

    August 7, 1997

    What Really Happened To Rodeny Hulin?

    Since his death, teenage inmate Rodney Hulin has become a national symbol of why it's wrong to send juveniles to adult prisons. His true story, though, paints a different kind of troubling picture.

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    The Trouble with Larry

    Could castration cure Larry McQuay of his urge to molest children? He thinks it can, and wants the state to nueter him. Others would just like to neutralize him.

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    The Insider

    Could castration cure Larry McQuay of his urge to molest children? He thinks it can, and wants the state to nueter him. Others would just like to neutralize him.

  • News

    June 29, 1995

    Letters

    Could castration cure Larry McQuay of his urge to molest children? He thinks it can, and wants the state to nueter him. Others would just like to neutralize him.

  • News

    May 18, 1995
  • News

    April 6, 1995

    Down on Peckerwood Hill

    It's the last stop for some Texas prison inmates

  • News

    November 3, 1994

    Hung Out

    A gay prison employee has his personal life ripped up and exposed by his superiors

  • Film

    September 29, 1994

    Sodomy and Sentiment

    A gay prison employee has his personal life ripped up and exposed by his superiors

  • News

    December 9, 1993

    Wearing Two Hats

    Gatesville warden Susan Cranford talks about the contradictory roles of running a prison for women

  • News

    December 9, 1993

    A Visit to Gatesville

    A gray November day spent in the gray world of the inmates and staff of the Texas State prison for women

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