The Texas Department of Criminal Justice often takes heat for the books that are banned in state prisons. But the controversy escalated this week when Israel’s general consul to the Southwestern U.S. questioned why Mein Kampf isn’t on the list.
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In Harvey's Wake
Hundreds of Harvey prison evacuees start transfer to cooler Texas facilities
A federal judge’s order that some prison inmates relocated amid Hurricane Harvey’s flooding be moved into air-conditioned units is prompting a big prisoner shakeup.
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As a result of Hurricane Harvey, 600 more Texas prisoners getting AC
As Hurricane Harvey approached Texas, state prison officials moved thousands of inmates to higher ground. But now that the storm has passed, about 600 of the evacuees gained protection from hot conditions in their cells thanks to an ongoing federal lawsuit.
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Texas congressman concerned about Beaumont prisoners after Harvey
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, an Austin Democrat, is asking about prisoner safety in Beaumont after Hurricane Harvey. Inmates stayed put at state and federal prisons while the city lost its water supply for about a week.
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Two more Texas prisons evacuated as Hurricane Harvey flooding continues
Two more Houston-area prisons have been evacuated as flooding continues, bringing the total to five prisons and almost 6,000 inmates shipped off to drier facilities in the region.
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Criminal Justice
Judge approves temporary relocation of 1,000 hot prisoners
A federal judge signed off on Texas’ proposal to temporarily move more than 1,000 inmates from one hot prison to 11 different facilities around the state.
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Criminal Justice
Texas plans to move 1,000 inmates to air-conditioned prison units
Texas submitted a court-ordered proposal Thursday to move about 1,000 medically sensitive inmates from an uncooled prison southeast of College Station to air-conditioned units elsewhere in the state.
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Almost half of Texas’ supply of execution drugs just expired
Eight doses of the state’s supply of pentobarbital, the only drug used in Texas executions, expired on Thursday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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Heat is part of life at Texas prisons, but federal judge orders one to cool it
Most Texas prisons remain un-air conditioned, but a federal judge’s ruling Wednesday called conditions at one prison cruel and unusual and ordered temporary air conditioning for heat-sensitive inmates.
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U.S. Supreme Court ruling could imperil Texas sex offender rules
Texas rules barring sex offenders from using certain websites were thrown into jeopardy Monday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar statute in North Carolina violates the First Amendment.
