Kenyan priest's deportation highlights TDCJ's need for immigrant guards in Texas prisons

Criminal justice experts said TDCJ's need for immigrant labor, even in Texas, speaks to the agency's long-standing staffing ...
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Plantations to Prison Farms: How Far Have We Come?

Prisoners at Ellis Unit in Huntsville, Texas, in March of 1966. Ellis is built on land from a former slave plantation. Credit: Photo by Bruce Jackson On a 90-degree June day at Memorial Unit in ...