Woman says she gave birth on jail floor after guards accused her of faking labor
Shaye Bear gave birth to her son, Cashh, in an Ellis County Jail cell in Waxahachie on Thursday. She was about five months pregnant.
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Houston Is Forcing Its Parolees Out of City Center and into ‘the Boonies’
Houston has come up with a new way to make life harder for people leaving prison on parole: by forcing the programs that provide them with housing, often paired with job placement and other services, to move outside the city limits.
"Women can do this": Female inmates in Texas find fulfillment in learning technical skills, but they have fewer options than men
Female inmates are offered fewer educational opportunities than men in Texas prisons, according to a recently released report. Those women who do have access to technical education say they are finding their passions.
Texas Incarcerates More Women Than Any Other U.S. State
Since the early 1990s, Texas has seen a spike in the number of women entering the prison system.
Mother’s Day Behind Bars
The rate of growth for female incarceration has outpaced that of males by 50 percent since 1980–and over 60 percent of women in state prisons have a child under 18, according to a national advocacy group report released just ahead of Mother’s Day.
Number of graves continues to grow at Fort Bend ISD work site
The number of graves discovered at a Fort Bend ISD construction site continues to grow, potentially affirming the views of a community activist who had warned district officials that the site could hold bodies of those who were part of a 19th century convict leasing system.
A Catch-22 in the Crimmigration System in Harris County
In Houston, a lack of transparency and poor communication between immigration and criminal courts has created a civil rights nightmare and a clog in the system.
Survey shows GOP base is tough on crime, but also smart on crime
Conservative voters are seeing the value in rehabilitation for offenders jailed on non-violent drug charges.
Survey: Strong Republican support for more job training at Texas prisons
A new survey by the bipartisan Texas Smart-On-Crime Coalition shows a majority of Republican primary voters support criminal justice reforms in the state.
What it looks like to be a woman jailed in Texas – where more are locked up than any other state
Texas now incarcerates more women by sheer number than any other state in the country, according to a new report.