The New Yorker2d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN5d
Every Woman Who Leaves This Texas Prison Program Comes Out With a Job
A reentry program near Waco, Texas, has proven successful. Not only does every participant come out with a job, but their ...
Temple Daily Telegram2d
STRIVE to do better: Inmates in this Texas program are leaving prison with jobs — and lower chances of reincarceration
As Amanda Morgan walked out of state prison for the third time in her life, she felt equipped to never return.
National Catholic Register24d
Pope Francis Appoints Bishop Joe Vásquez to Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
Bishop Joe Vasquez of the Diocese of Austin (l) celebrates Mass in the Mountain View Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, which houses the state's female death row, on Dec. 1, 2023. At right is ...
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TDCJ welcoming the public to learn about and tour Central Texas correctional facilities
GATESVILLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is welcoming people inside the correctional facilities in Gatesville through its new Citizens’ Academy Program. “It’s ...
Yahoo News6d
Inmates in this Texas program are leaving prison with jobs — and lower chances of reincarceration
GATESVILLE — As Amanda ... 12-week reentry program the Texas Department of Criminal Justice launched in 2019 to help women incarcerated at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit (formerly called the Mountain ...