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Texas Department of Criminal Justice

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Graham's Goree Details

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

  • News

    March 28, 1996

    The Brothers Graham (Part I)

    Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    Now Hiring. No Age Requirement.

    Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Four-Dollar Gas Doesn't Stem Felons From Flooding Houston

    Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2008

    The Elderly Come And Go In TDCJ

    Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2008

    Victim Advocates Now Welcome At Executions

    Once upon a time in Humble, there lived two guys named Pat and Mike. They had a way of making people believe, and those people included some of Texas' highest public officials. While it turned out that their stories usually were just too good to be true,

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    Cell Phones

    Not even prison officials can silence the irrepressible King of Con

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Let's Make A Deal

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

  • 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.

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    TDCJ Comes Up Against The Cell Phone Companies

    A lot of people who read about the epidemic of cell phones in Texas prisons had a basic question -- if you can't discover and confiscate the things, why not just block them? Set it up to jam transmissions in the prison?It turns out TDCJ has thought about that, but it's easier said than done.The pris ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 1994

    Hung Out

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

  • News

    April 6, 1995

    Down on Peckerwood Hill

    It's the last stop for some Texas prison inmates

  • News

    May 18, 1995

    A decade of struggles for sexual equality means that male prisoners today are having to answer to female jailers.

    Now everybody, it's claimed, will be on their best behavior. Really?

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    A Last Bite of '97

    Now everybody, it's claimed, will be on their best behavior. Really?

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Following the Money

    Now everybody, it's claimed, will be on their best behavior. Really?

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Critical Diagnosis

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

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Keeping the King Quiet

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

  • Best of Houston

    September 21, 2000

    Best Bicycle Day Trip

    Houston to Fulshear

  • News

    December 4, 2008

    Crime Doesn’t Pay(back): A Houston Press Special Report on Court-Ordered Restitutions in Texas

    More than 90 percent of Texas parolees walk away without paying off what the state ordered them to.

  • News

    August 7, 2008

    Busted for Blow Jobs

    Beaumont officer says they were okayed

  • News

    January 23, 2003

    On the Defense

    Internal feuds and investigations cripple the agency representing accused convicts

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    More Banned Books in Texas Prisons, and Cactus Jack Gets Sued

    We get answers! Some make sense!

  • News

    April 3, 2008

    Banned Books at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice

    No logic needed

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Val D. Adams, Oscar Wyatt, Paris Hilton, Garbage and Religious Transfers

    A preacher makes the news again

  • News

    April 24, 2003

    Mail Sacked

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

  • 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.

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Don't Buy the Hype

    A serial killer isn't getting out, no matter what TDCJ says

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Writer's Block

    Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Lite Sentences

    TDCJ cuts the calories for convicts, leaving them and guards grumbling

  • News

    August 21, 2003

    Letters

    TDCJ cuts the calories for convicts, leaving them and guards grumbling

  • News

    July 17, 2003

    Prison Break?

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

  • News

    January 17, 2002

    Hanging Up

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

  • 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

    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

    December 21, 2000

    Letters

    Ministry Magic, Rice Wars, Cross to Bear

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Party Lines

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

  • 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.

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Jailhouse Crock

    Spanish-language media cries foul over Railcar Killer interviews

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Trouble in Mind

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

  • 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

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Execution Drug In Short Supply; How Will Texas Cope?

    Texas doesn't make rookie mistakes when it comes to the death penalty​The Arizona Republic reports today that a planned execution in Ohio almost had to delay a recent execution because of a shortage of thiopental sodium, the drug used for lethal injections. Arizona, it said, might be unable to do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Texas Has Fewer Inmates; What The Hell Are We Doing Wrong?

    ​The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report about state prison populations, and Texas was one of six states with large decreases in the number of people incarcerated.  These numbers continue, the report says, "the trend of slower growth observed in the prison population since 2 ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Montrose Murder

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

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    Prison Pays: How It Started

    Texas first contracted with private prisons to honor the Constitution, not to save money.

  • News

    December 30, 2010

    Prison Pays

    Despite a history of abuse and bad conditions, private prison corporation GEO keeps getting contracts from the state.

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    GEO: Private-Prison Company Somehow Keeps Getting Contracts In Texas

    Illustration by Keri RosebraughA look into private prisons​When Arthur William Brown left his Houston halfway house December 15, he did the usual: he signed the check-out form that residents of the facility have to sign whenever they leave the premises for the day. Only on that day, Brown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    ACLU: When Facing Death, Lizards Are Treated More Humanely Than Humans

    Does Cleve Foster deserve a death at least as humane as that of a lizard? The ACLU thinks so.​The pets of those on death row would be treated more humanely than their owners, if the animals were sitting in the execution chamber instead of them. According to a report released by the American C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Alejandro Smith: TDCJ Prison Guard Was Also Heroin Dealer, Prosecutors Say

    TDCJ: Who's guarding the guards?​A Texas Department of Criminal Justice guard has been arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute. Alejandro Smith, 21, worked in Huntsville's Eastham Unit; police got a tip that he was "providing contraband to prisoners," the U.S. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Three Meals a Day for Texas Prisoners: The Petition Campaign

    More sir, please.​The daughter of a Texas inmate is getting thousands of people to sign a petition demanding the state resume feeding its prisoners three times a day seven days a week. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this fall that budget constraints were forcing them to fe ... More >>

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