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THREAD: Wondering how things are going in Texas prisons right now? 33 units are on generator power, guards say they’re being kept “hostage” and prisoners are eating THIS. This is
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This is everyone executed in U.S. in the past 5+ years. At @MarshallProj we tracked them all. Here's a thread about what we found. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/02/10/what-120-executions-tell-us-about-criminal-justice-in-ameri
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#BREAKING Texas death row prisoner Jorge Villanueva died this weekend after testing positive for covid, several sources confirm. He had been on the row 25 years, was blind and had
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I just got a letter from a prisoner in California who got a disciplinary write-up because he refused to bunk with a cellie who’d been exposed to COVID. It started
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Raymond Riles has been on death row since *1976* When I started covering the row, ppl told me that's bc everyone knew he was “insane" - he thinks he’s God
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This is a video from solitary confinement. Take a moment & sit w/this. Imagine what it would be like to actually live there, in such a barren place w/no fresh
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Today I celebrate 10 years. A decade since I stopped doing drugs. In recovery they always say it gets easier over time - but this year challenged that. Not surprisingly,
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Why did the heron cross the beach? To get a records request in person bc they wouldn’t just email it even though this is the 21st century. Here is my
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THREAD: Yesterday I discovered that TDCJ has been deleting deaths from its COVID death count. These were all ppl who tested + before they died, & TDCJ posted them online
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At one Texas prison nearly 6% OF THE POPULATION has died of COVID-19. Not 6% of the covid patients died, but 6% of the entire prison population. That's according to
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Just jumping in to say that we still use prisoners as slave labor here in Texas. They work in fields, are not paid, and face punishment if they don't go
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Darrington prison is named after a slave plantation. Draper is named after a KKK leader. Goree Unit is named after a Confederate captain.We talk a lot about racist monuments &
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