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Advocates say the timing is right for independent oversight of Texas prisons

A bill aiming to detach the ombudsman from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice died in 2017. But news from the past year makes advocates hopeful that 2019 will be different.

By HANNAH WILEY, The Texas Tribune
Posted 11/26/18

After a recent slew of damning headlines regarding conditions within Texas prisons, reform advocates and lawmakers are hopeful that the timing is right to get legislation passed creating independent …

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