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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...
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The inmates have private cells and dine with the guards. Norway spends three times as much as the U.S. per prisoner. Norwegians say it pays off, with less than half the U.S. recidivism rate.