Subject: Correctional Institutions

• Immigrants Detained in Texas Aren't Getting the Medical Care They Need, Human Rights Watch Says

  Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch on Tuesday released a report blasting the government for delaying, withholding and botching medical care for immigrants detained in Florida, Arizona and Texas. In the Lone Star State, the researchers conducted interviews with women held at the Port Isabel detention center in Harlingen, as well as the 2,000-bed detention center in Willacy County. Focusing specifically on women, the report describes insufficient care during pregnancy and breast cancer, as wel

  March 17, 2009

• According to Audit, the City Has Overpaid Dallas County Millions for Use of County Jail

  City Auditor's OfficeAccording to the latest audit, this is how much the city pays the county per a 31-year-old county jail operating agreement.In 1978, the city of Dallas and Dallas County signed an agreement concerning the operations at the county jail -- an agreement that's been revised four times, most recently in 1997. Which, as far as City Auditor Craig Kinton is concerned in his latest audit, is far too long to go between revisions -- especially since "the County jail operation has experi

  April 6, 2009

• Unhappy Campers

  Critics of a private prison firm that ran two juvenile boot camps in Dallas wonder where the love is at these "tough love academies"

  September 27, 2001