Texas has paid 89 exonerees nearly $61 million since 1992, according to data from the Texas comptroller’s office. Use this interactive to see how much money the state has paid to exonerated prisoners by fiscal year.
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Slideshow: Turning Inmates Into Entrepreneurs
The Prison Entrepreneurship Program at the Cleveland Correctional Center trains selected inmates, who will soon be released, to design their own businesses. Here’s a series of photographs from a recent class.
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Slideshow: Turning Prisoners Into Entrepreneurs
The Prison Entrepreneurship Program at the Cleveland Correctional Center trains selected inmates, who will soon be released, to design their own businesses. Here’s a series of photographs from a recent class.
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Criminal Justice
Inmates Use Business Program to Get Head Start on Life After Prison
Through a program operated by a Houston nonprofit, some Texas inmates who will soon be released get a chance to learn business skills and work on plans to start their own businesses.
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Hygiene Products Running Low in Prisons as State Contracts Lapse
Texas prisons are running low on hygiene products that are not considered necessities for inmates, including toothpaste and deodorant. Family members and inmates are frustrated as state officials try to find a contractor.
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Criminal Justice
Business Association Launches Criminal Justice Agenda
The Texas Association of Business, the state’s largest business lobby, is adding criminal justice reform to its agenda for the first time. The association says reducing the prison population and increasing the workforce makes business sense.
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Criminal Justice
Groups Urge Lawmakers to Shutter Privately Run Jail
Civil rights, human rights and criminal justice groups on Thursday sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to close a privately run state jail in downtown Dallas.
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Bill Looks to Adjust Medical Parole to Help Alleviate Prison Budget
As lawmakers try to trim the budget for health care for prison inmates, one bill aims to cut costs by re-examining a program that releases inmates deemed the oldest, sickest and most expensive.
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Kerry Max Cook’s 30-Year Exoneration Fight Takes Another Nasty Turn
Kerry Max Cook, who spent two decades on death row for a 1977 murder, says the prosecutor in Smith County is fighting dirty in his mission to stymie the ex-inmate’s efforts to prove his innocence.
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Report: Investing in Drug Treatment Could Save State Millions of Dollars
A new report by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition says that rather than throwing drug addicts in jail, the state should invest more money in substance abuse treatment, which it says could save millions of dollars and improve public safety.
