Maoist Ministry Of PrisonsPhone blast for care for Chican@ Political Prisoner Xinachtli
#PoliticalPrisoners #PhoneBlast #Xinachtli #TDCJ #Texas #Prisons
DC Books to PrisonsHorrible news from #Texas: Effective April 1, 2026, "all books mailed to inmates [in state prisons run by #TDCJ] must be softback and in new condition." Being unable to send hardcover books to people in Texas will be only a small inconvenience for us, but being unable to send used books will severely limit our ability to serve that population.
We've never been accused of drug smuggling, so it's annoying to see drug smuggling cited as the reason for the new policy.
Houston Public MediaGhislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, has been transferred to a federal prison in Bryan.
#CriminalJustice #News #BryanPrison #FederalBureauOfPrisons #Tdcj #TexasPrisons
A Texas prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing a 27-year-old correctional officer from the Houston area in 2023.
#Crime #CriminalJustice #Local #News #Texas #CapitalMurder #JovianMotley #Lovelady #Tdcj #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #TexasPrisons
Texas prisoner pleads guilty to capital murder in 2023 death of correctional officer from Houston area
Jovian Motley, 27, died during a tussle inside of a prison cell in the Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, about 20 miles north of Huntsville. It happened while five officers worked to restrain Jabari Lewis, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to Motley's murder.
Cowboy Bert@octaviannothing I see your #CPB and raise you #TDCJ. https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/114191043087587502
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Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the #Texas correctional system. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/ #politics #USpol #HumanRights #MentalHealth #news #CriminalJustice
The Final Straw Radio Podcast | A weekly Anarchist Radio Show & Podcast [Unofficial]Forced Labor, Living Conditions, Opacity and Impunity in Texas Prisons (with Michelle Pitcher)
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will decide in March if Yolanda Saldívar, a former Selena fan club president convicted in the Texas pop star's 1995 shooting death, will be eligible for parole.
#CriminalJustice #News #PopCulture #Texas #Selena #SelenaQuintanilla #Tdcj #TexasBoardOfPardonsAndParoles #TexasDepartmentOfCriminalJustice #YolandaSaldivar
An article in @reasonmagazine (Reason Magazine) discusses the irony of a book by prisoners being banned in state prisons in Texas.
The book details prisoners' experiences with solitary confinement. Reason's article notes that: "Studies on the long-term effects of solitary confinement attest to the brutal nature described in many of the letters."
https://reason.com/2024/10/17/these-texas-inmates-wrote-a-book-then-the-prison-system-banned-it/
#censorship #book #anthology #prisons #Texas #TexasLetters #TDCJ #SolitaryConfinement
The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
#CriminalJustice #News #Execution #Huntsville #RobertRoberson #Tdcj
Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case after lawmakers’ last-minute appeal
Supporters of Robert Roberson, who was convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, turned to the Texas high court, which normally does not get involved in criminal cases, after both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, earlier in the day rejected appeals to halt his lethal injection.
Prison Banned Books Week: TX Bans Book Cuz It's Effective
https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/prison-banned-books-week-tx-bans-book-cuz-its-effective/
* TDCJ bans book of prisoner writings to shut down RHU/long-term isolation
* censorship is part of counter-insurgency coming down from Governor Abbot