The Mexican Mafia or La EME 
.... (Though the Mexican Mafia originated in California in the late 1950s, its
Texas prison branch got started in 1984--as of 1990, it had 351 members.) Because of ....
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Inmate Prison Violence in America
.... Unfortunately, the violent conditions which exist throughout the
Texas prison system can also be found permeating all the other state systems as well. ....
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Education & Recidivism in Texas Prisons
....
Texas has a thriving
prison-industrial complex, wherein private
prison operators, construction companies building prisons, and the
Texas Department of Criminal ....
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Privatization of Prisons
.... Investors in
Texas'
prison building boom included big names from Wall Street, such as Allstate, Merrill Lynch, Sherson Lehman, and American Express. ....
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Musical Formalization of the Blues
.... The lyrics refer to a train that passed by a
Texas prison at about midnight, and its headlight beam fell across several of the
prison's buildings. ....
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Evaluation of Prison Privatization Privatizat
.... In
Texas, two prisoners escaped from a private
prison and the state was held liable for the damages that the prisoners inflicted on others during their brief ....
(2208
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Solitary Confinement
.... 1971]) there was a challenge to the conditions of solitary confinement in the
Texas prison system, and these conditions included lightless cells, limited ....
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The Attica Prison Riot
.... California is removing weight lifting equipment from
prison. Maryland has banned inmates from smoking in their cells.
Texas even withheld fans from inmates as ....
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The Justice for All Organization
.... Mandatory release, used to ameliorate the major problem of
prison overcrowding in
Texas, enabled inmates to get out early once their in
prison "good behavior ....
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Incarcerated Illegal Immigrants
.... the most economic burden from housing illegal aliens in
prison, "California, which .... estimated at $180 million, was awarded $94 million, while
Texas secured $39 ....
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AIDS IN PRISON Introduction This research pap
.... 1996, p. 1282). The
Texas Department of Criminal Justice is the largest
prison system in the United States. Over 127,000 inmates ....
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TEXAS V. JOHNSON Supreme Court Decision
.... He was arrested, tried and convicted in a Dallas court of a violation of
Texas Penal Code Ann. sec. 42.09(a)(3) and sentenced to one year in
prison. ....
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Criminals and the recidvism rate
.... this article, this had not proved true: 30 percent of
prison inmates had .... counseling for inmates showed signs of preventing recidivism in
Texas prisons (Elliot ....
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HIV/AIDS Prisoners. Child Pornography
.... concentrations were found in New York,
Texas and Florida, accounting for half this number. Rhode Island had the highest percentage of the
prison population who ....
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Death Penalty Arguments
.... but a direct result of the fact that potential killers were aware that a
prison sentence was the worst punishment they could receive. Within
Texas, the county ....
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Witness to a Prosecution
.... The
prison public relations officer Larry Fitzgerald explains that in
Texas an inmate is allowed five witnesses plus a spiritual advisor. ....
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Witness to an Execution
.... The
prison public relations officer Larry Fitzgerald explains that in
Texas an inmate is allowed five witnesses plus a spiritual advisor. ....
(1973
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RECIDIVISM AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Introductio
.... Cuvelier, Fritsch, Gerber, Longmire and Burton (1994) conducted an extensive large-scale multidimensional evaluation study of the
prison education in
Texas. ....
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Movement toward abolition of the death penalty
.... execution rate. In 1993, Ramon Montoya Facundo was executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville State
Prison in
Texas. The Supreme ....
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Issue of Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders
....
Texas state district judge Michael McSpadden, alarmed that the courts were failing, that .... since seven out of 10 people he was sending to
prison had already been ....
(2064
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Political Positions on Immigration
.... Six other states with the heaviest concentration of illegal immigrants in
prison--New York,
Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Jersey, and Illinois--are to share ....
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Alternative Sentencing
.... That same year, California led the nation with 11,076 women in
prison, followed by
Texas with 10,549, New York with 3,584, and Florida with 3,404 (Chesney-Lind ....
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Prisons and Crime Reduction
.... money was spent, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts for
Texas was extremely skeptical that the huge amounts of money being spent on
prison expansion had ....
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Programs to Reduce Crime in the US
.... money was spent, and the Comptroller of Public Accounts for
Texas was extremely skeptical that the huge amounts of money being spent on
prison expansion had ....
(1275
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Problem of Jail Crowding in the US
.... local judiciary has only recently become involved in examining the jail and
prison crowding problem. In many jurisdictions, including Austin,
Texas, and Fort ....
(1958
8
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Narcotics Control
.... In Michigan, the program found that the largest prescriber of Schedule II drugs was a physician serving a sentence in a
Texas prison and sending prescriptions ....
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All The Pretty Horses
.... passages, when a train disrupts the peaceful solitude of the
Texas terrain. .... Along the way he will experience love, violence, theft,
prison, murder, and the ....
(3437
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Private Correctional Corporations
.... movement in
prison management: The number of management firms with
prison operation contracts rose from 17 to 21 between 1992 and 1993;
Texas leads the nation ....
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Street Gangs & Juvenile Corrections System
.... of Columbia had taken away much of the discretion of judges in setting sentences: "Mandated
prison sentences have .... Austin,
Texas: University of
Texas Press, 1988 ....
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Reduction of Inmate Privileges
.... In one state,
Texas, which has enacted such laws, the incarceration rate has reached 659 per 100,000. Seven states reported
prison populations which were well ....
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