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By Jennifer Autrey: Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Jailers had watched her frantic distress for five days. Stopping up the toilet to flood her cell. Trying to hang herself with her gown. Announcing that she was pregnant with Jesus' child.
JPS overlooked signs of a health-care crisis, even though inmates and their families cried out for assistance
By Jennifer Autrey: Star-Telegram Staff Writer
After James Wright had a brain abscess removed, he didn't always get his antibiotics.
Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas
The inmates at the Galveston County jail in Galveston, Texas, are getting out. They're handcuffed, and it's just for a ride.
WICHITA FALLS, TX- After enduring 18 months in a Texas prison where gangs bought and sold him as a sexual slave, Roderick Johnson will appear in federal district court Monday for the first day of his civil trial against the prison officials who failed to protect him, the American Civil Liberties