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Mother’s Day Fundraiser – Help Texas Jail Project Support Moms
Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, “The primacy of class is thoroughly gendered: women who work to support their families and to free their loved ones encounter one another as laborers with similar triple workdays – job, home, justice.” Texas Jail Project encounters and interacts with many such women in that so-called third job: justice. Read More
Teen Vogue: Giving Birth in Jail Often Comes With Medical Neglect, Texas Jail Project Finds
After 28 men and women died in custody while awaiting trial last year, local officials are throwing money at the overcrowded facility. Advocates for inmates say bigger reforms are needed. Read More
Texas Monthly : “It Smells of Despair”: What’s Going On Inside the Harris County Jail?
After 28 men and women died in custody while awaiting trial last year, local officials are throwing money at the overcrowded facility. Advocates for inmates say bigger reforms are needed. Read More
Houston Chronicle: Harris County Jail fails another inspection as investigations continue + Full TCJS Report
Inspectors from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards found during a mid-February walk-through that jail staff are falling short in multiple key areas: failure to follow medical orders and failure to treat detainees with medical issues in a timely manner, where the jail has repeatedly failed before, again made inspectors' list of deficiencies. Read More
Brazoria County seeks jail reform amid rising inmate population
There’s nowhere for these people to go,” Gundu said. “So if we don’t have a plan to get that population out, it doesn’t matter how many beds we build.” Read More
Workforce shortages in the state psychiatric hospital system prolong jail time for mentally ill Texans
The state has added more beds for jail inmates who need psychiatric treatment to be considered competent to face trial. But at least a third remain empty because the state can’t hire enough people to staff them. - Texas Tribune Read More
FWST: In Texas jails, deaths from failure to give proper medication are shrouded in secrecy
The No. 1 complaint received about state jails by inmates and their families is that incarcerated people are not given the medications they were prescribed prior to being detained, said Krish Gundu, executive director of the Texas Jail Project. The nonprofit advocacy group based near Houston works to ensure incarcerated Texans are being cared for properly. Read More
