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At one of the toughest prisons in America, doubling up inmates in cells designed for solitary confinement can lead to violence, and for some who refuse a cellmate, handcuffs and chains.
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From Texas Standard: President Obama has commuted the sentences of more federal inmates than the last ten presidents combined. Many of those who saw...
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From Texas Standard: In a time before reality TV competitions like American Ninja Warrior, more than 30,000 Texans would show up on Sundays in October...
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The activist Marc Lamont Hill argues that America needs to end its prison system. With crime at all-time lows, he might sway people of color who've long called for harsher punishment for lawbreakers.
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The Texas Prison Museum displays wooden guns that look real, shanks made from spoons and a chess set carved from soap. The item that gets the most attention? An electric chair nicknamed Old Sparky.
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From Texas Standard: A few weeks ago the U.S. Department of Justice announced they will end federal use of privately run prisons. Now their attention...
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From Texas Standard: The federal government announced that it's phasing out its use of privately run prisons and now, the Texas Department of Criminal...
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Inmates in seven state prisons refused to leave their cells, in protest of what they call inhumane living and working conditions.
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From Texas Standard: In 2003, then President George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. The bill required federal and state lockups to...
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From Texas Standard: The highly publicized shootings of Michael Brown, Sam Dubose and several other African-American men has shined a spotlight on how...