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In The Wake Of Evidence Planting, Who Fights For Prisoners’ Rights?

Abner Fletcher

Posted on June 14, 2018 · After revelations of evidence being planted in an inmate’s cell at a Texas Prison, Houston Matters discusses the rights of prisoners and hears from an organization that advocates on their behalf.

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Brazoria County Prison Guards Fired Amid Planted Evidence Allegations

Associated Press

Posted on June 5, 2018 · The Houston Chronicle obtained copies of an email from Capt. Reginald Gilbert that ordered a quota for officers to write inmate disciplinary reports

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I SEE U, Episode 72: Prisons: A Colossal Waste of Human Potential

Eddie Robinson

Posted on January 26, 2023 · Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller stresses rehabilitation over punishment for U.S. prisons and argues that doing nothing to reform the current system feeds a continued cycle of crime, community dysfunction, poverty and hopelessness.

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Ex-Missouri City officer Robert Fratta to be executed Tuesday in murder-for-hire plot

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Posted on January 9, 2023 · Fratta was convicted of killing his wife, Farah. She was found shot twice in the head after she filed for divorce.

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What Artemis I taught us (Dec. 12, 2022)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on December 12, 2022 · On Monday's show: NASA's Artemis I mission returned to Earth on Sunday. We discuss how the mission went and what was learned from it. And we examine how a lack of proper staffing and security contributed to a deadly Texas prison escape.

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Reports: Many security lapses led to Texas inmate’s escape

Juan A. Lozano, AP

Posted on December 9, 2022 · After Gonzalo Lopez fled a prison bus on May 12 during an escape in which he was able to break free from his restraints and cut through a caged area of the vehicle. He remained free for three weeks.

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