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  2. The cruelty of heat-related deaths inside Texas prisons is ...

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    In 2011, Texas’s hottest summer on record, 10 people in the state’s prisons died from heat stroke. The number of heat-related deaths since is controversial. The Texas Department of Criminal ...

  3. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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    Dempsie Henley State Jail (Female) Pam Lychner State Jail (originally Atascocita Unit) Lucille G. Plane State Jail (Female) Region IV. Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail. Renaldo V. Lopez State Jail. Joe Ney State Jail (originally the Hondo Unit) Rogelio Sanchez State Jail. Region V.

  4. Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...

  5. Barry Telford Unit - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .tdcj .state .tx .us /unit _directory /to .html. The Barry B. Telford Unit ( TO) a.k.a. Telford Unit (opened July 1995) is a Texas state prison located in unincorporated Bowie County, Texas. The facility, along Texas State Highway 98, is 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Interstate 30. It has a "New Boston, Texas" mailing address, [1] and ...

  6. Paid prison labour - Wikipedia

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    Paid prison labour is the participation of convicted prisoners in either voluntary or mandatory paid work programs. While in prison, inmates are expected to work in areas such as industry, institutional maintenance, service tasks and agriculture. [1] The most common work assignments contribute to facility support, such as food service ...

  7. Editorial: Sweltering Texas prisons are inhumane - AOL

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    Texas leaders continue to ignore extreme and sometimes deadly heat in state prisons. We'll all pay the price.

  8. Huntsville Unit - Wikipedia

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    Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit ( HV ), nicknamed " Walls Unit ", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre (22.00 ha) facility, near downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [1] The ...

  9. Texas needs to air-condition prisons before a federal court ...

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    About two-thirds of the state’s 87 prison and jail facilities have no or partial air conditioning, ... As the old saying goes, pay now or pay more later. Texas has the money. It just needs the ...