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Texas Justice Initiative is a nonprofit organization that collects, analyzes, publishes oversight for criminal justice data throughout Texas.
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What We're Reading
News that caught our attention or cited the Texas Justice Initiative from across the Lone Star State and beyond.
On the Media: Cruel and Unusual
Published on 2020-04-26T00:00:00.000ZIn Brooke Gladstone's interview with Ashley Rubin, a prison scholar and professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii Mānoa, the two discuss the American penal system's complicated history with disease.
Fallen Officers From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published on 2020-04-15T00:00:00.000ZA working list of law enforcement officers who have died after contracting COVID-19 throughout the U.S., compiled by the Officer Down Memorial Page.
How criminal justice systems are responding to the coronavirus outbreak
Published on 2020-03-12T00:00:00.000ZThe Boston-based Crime and Justice Institute is maintaining a roundup of what jails and prisons in each state are doing in response to the Coronavirus outbreak.
This Chart Shows Why The Prison Population Is So Vulnerable to COVID-19
Published on 2020-04-15T00:00:00.000ZThe Marshall Project explores the characteristics of individuals inside of U.S. prisons, and what makes them particularly vulnerable to contracting a disease like the Coronavirus.
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