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Wendy Morales now lives at Hobby unit outside Gatesville, Texas The OIG investigation ... with Lioness, a prison reform group run by current and formerly incarcerated women.
She spent her days tending to corn and other crops on the 1,200-acre farm surrounding the Lane Murray Unit, a women’s prison in central Texas. At night, the heat inside the cells was often worse ...
But that still wouldn’t change a major underlying problem: Sexual abuse is normalized in many women’s lives long before they get to prison. Those coming out of Texas’ notoriously troubled youth ...
BURNET COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Pam Stevenson’s drive home from teaching a bible study class at the Ellen Halbert Unit Women’s Prison, a message she couldn’t ignore hit her as she ...
Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went ...
According to the Texas Offender Orientation Handbook ... Even though Lisa Jackson is a transgender man, he is incarcerated in a women’s prison. Lisa is mixed race and when he first entered ...
DAYTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Bedtime stories may be an ordinary part of your family's nighttime routine, but it's far from ordinary for women serving time for crimes at jails and prisons across our state.