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Foster had been the getaway driver, not the triggerman, in a killing that first put him...

x Almost 150 guards are staffing an empty Texas prison as state officials work on Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to use it for immigrants 18 hours 25 minutes 53 seconds ago Friday, July 09 2021 Jul 9, 2021 July 09, 2021 2:29 PM July 09, 2021 in News - Immigration / Borderwall Source: https://www.texastribune.org/ Share: The Briscoe Unit in Dilley, Texas, was emptied of state prisoners last month to instead detain immigrants. Credit: Chris Stokes for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. With the Texas priso...

The Briscoe Unit in Dilley, Texas, was emptied of state prisoners last month to instead detain immigrants. With the Texas prison system dangerously understaffed, nearly 150 guards are now working in an empty prison that Gov. Greg Abbott plans to convert into a state-run jail for immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. More than 1,000 prisoners at the South Texas Briscoe Unit were transferred to other state lockups weeks ago, but it's still unclear when and how the emptied prison will be fashioned into a Texas-operated jail for migrants facing — but not convicted of — stat...

Justices with Texas' highest court on criminal matters upheld the 90-year prison sentence of a Lubbock businessman convicted more than three years ago of selling so-called synthetic marijuana out of his smoke shops. In a 12-page opinion issued last week, justices found that testimony from an expert witness was sufficient to help jurors determine that a chemical structure found in synthetic marijuana seized from 54-year-old Anthony Carter's home and businesses were illegal under a 2015 revision of the state's drug statute prohibiting penalty group 2A, which used chemicals to mimic the effect...

Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk. The agency's website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.  Among the list are four people who officials removed from the agency's official county of coronavirus-related deaths, even though they had ...