Note: Gail Hanson is a valuable volunteer with Texas Jail Project; we congratulate her and her hard-working legal team for this settlement that restores her right to help the women in the Cameron County Jail.

Forced to Give Birth in Taylor County Jail CellPress Release from Taylor County Juvenile Justice Center Abilene, Texas, November 1, 2010: The Honorable Sam R. Cummings, an Article III federal judge, refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Lance Hunter Voorhees, a former volunteer chaplain for the Taylor County Detention Center. Sheriff Bruce’s challenge of
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By CatholicOnline.org MARTIN, Ky. – A group of more than 30 Southern bishops issued a pastoral statement urging a new look at how the criminal justice system treats women in prison. “We do not tolerate sin or crime,” the bishops said in the statement, “Women in Prison,” issued March 27. “But we bishops of the
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