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
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
Spurred by a horrifying wave of teen violence in the '90s, Texas today spends more money than ever to lock up young criminals. Are we getting our money's worth?
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative says it can rehabilitate Texas prison inmates through God--a conservative evangelical Christian God, to be more precise
