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From Texas Standard.In 2014, the Obama administration secured the release of Bowe Bergdahl from captivity in Afghanistan by agreeing to release five…
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From Texas Standard:Stephanie Garcia is a high school student. She’s also a 24-year-old inmate at the Lockhart Correctional Facility, a minimum-security…
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From Texas Standard:Most states in the U.S. use solitary confinement as a form of punishment for prisoners. A 2012 investigation by Mother Jones found 38…
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From Texas Standard:The Texas Legislature has discussed the idea of raising the age of criminal responsibility during the two most recent sessions. It’s a…
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Jorge Renaud sits at a table in a dim room lit by string lights. He is surrounded by shelves of books, hunched over a box with dozens of letters from…
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Joyce F. King, broadcaster, columnist, and author of ‘Exonerated: A…
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From Texas Standard:If a soldier commits a crime, is that different than if anyone else commits a crime? There’s an argument that decisions made in the…
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From Texas Standard:Bill Pope knows a thing or two about prison phones. He’s the president of NCIC, a service provider for phones in Texas detention…
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From Texas Standard:President Obama has commuted the sentences of more federal inmates than the last ten presidents combined. Many of those who saw their…
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From Texas Standard:In a time before reality TV competitions like American Ninja Warrior, more than 30,000 Texans would show up on Sundays in October to…