The budgetary plea comes after the Chronicle and The Marshall Project published an...
After four deaths, thousands of safety violations and more than a decade of damning state reports, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is finally asking lawmakers to double the agency’s fire safety spending starting in September.
De La Garza’s family sued the prison agency for violating his civil rights; the case is pending in federal district court in Lufkin. The agency has asked a judge to dismiss the legal complaint. “This is a positive step, but unfortunately most of these maintenance issues are beyond overdue,” said Democratic Rep. Gene Wu of Houston. “Eventually we're going to need to either fix these problems or shut these units down because they're no longer safe.”
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