Advocacy
- TIFA Phone Costs Handout -2018
- TIFA Independent Oversight Leave Behind -2017
- TIFA Work Time Credit Leave Behind -2017
Links to Texas Legislature
- Find out who represents you
- Register to vote
- Texas Legislature Online
- Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
- Texas Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
Petitions
- TIFA Earned Time Credit Petition- 2020
- TIFA Independent Oversight Petition -2020
- TIFA Removal from Visitation List Survey – -2020
News Articles
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No Glitter, No Glue… No Meth?: Texas Bans Greeting Cards in Prison The Texas Monthly March 2, 2020
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In two Texas prisoner deaths, one former officer is indicted after another’s case is cleared The Texas Tribune February 29, 2020
- Texas Prisons Ban Greeting Cards, Expand Drug-Sniffing Dog Searches to Visitors The Texas Observer Feb 26, 2020
- The Prison Inside Prison The Texas Observer Jan/Feb 2020 Cover Story
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Corrections officer fired, two officials demoted after fatal use-of-force in Huntsville prison The Houston Chronicle Nov. 4, 2019
- Texas prison board approves $4 million for permanent AC at Navasota prison June 21, 2019
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Texas prison officials roll out updated policy banning disciplinary quotas 1 year after scandal May 20, 2019
- ‘The Penal System Today is Slavery’: Lawmakers Finally Start to Talk About Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons May 10,2019
- Solitary confinement worsens mental illness. A Texas prison program meant to help can feel just as isolating The Texas Tribune April 23, 2019
- ‘I just kept thinking he was coming home’: Suicides in Texas prisons hit 20-year high The Houston Chronicle April 5, 2019
- Rise in suicide attempts in Texas prisons alarms advocates ABCNews April 12, 2019
- Grand jury declines to indict TX prison guards who admitted to falsifying records The Houston Chronicle April 11, 2019
- Reckoning With Violence The New York Times March 3, 2019
- A state report says a Texas inmate died from heat last year. Prison officials contest that finding. The Texas Tribune February 19, 2019
- ‘It’s a crisis’: Nearly one in three guards left the Texas prison system last year Houston Chronicle January 25, 2019
- Mother sues Texas prisons after ‘egregious’ failure to prevent son’s suicide Houston Chronicle January 21, 2019
- Lawsuit: TX prison too understaffed to take inmate to hospital for flesh-eating bacteria infection Houston Chronicle December 18, 2018
- Nonprofit Brings Christmas Cheer to Families Divided by Incarceration The Rivard Report 12.9.18
- Report highlights the trauma that thousands of Texas families have experienced with incarceration The Texas Tribune 12.7.18
- Several Roads to Decarceration, All of Which Should Be Taken Gotham Gazette 12.6.16 (An op-ed about second look, parole reform and violent crimes)
- Criminal probe launched after Texas prison workers admit to falsifying inmate disciplinary records Houston Chronicle 12.5.18
- Huntsville prisoner allegedly killed by guard was handcuffed during deadly use-of-force Houston Chronicle 10.10.18
- Texas Prisons Lead the Nation in Long-Term Solitary Confinement The Texas Observer 10.10.18
- Officials Literally “Blow Hot Air” to Mitigate Heat in Texas Prisons TruthOut 10.6.18
- Sentencing reform is critical for youth in the justice system 9.17.18 TPPF Blog and Commentary
- Texas prison system slashes price of inmate phone calls by 77 percent Houston Chronicle 8.27.18
- Texas prisons dramatically cut the cost of inmate phone calls The Texas Tribune 8.24.18
- Needless quotas in prison system [Editorial] The Houston Chronicle 7.14.18
- 5 facts behind America’s high incarceration rate CNN July 10, 2018
- 4 Texas prison officials indicted after alleged screwdriver-planting incident at Brazoria lockup The Houston Chronicle7.10.18
- More than 500 disciplinary cases tossed after disciplinary quotas uncovered at 4 Texas prisons Houston Chronicle 6.11.18
- Texas inmates didn’t deserve a cold shoulder this winter [Editorial] The Fort Worth Star Telegram 1.5.18
- Relatives report inadequate heating at more than 30 Texas prisons The Texas Tribune 1.3.18
- Federal judge orders Texas prison system to provide a/c for heat-sensitive inmates at Pack Unit The Houston Chronicle 7.19.17
- How Medical Copays Haunt Prisoners and Their Loved Ones VICE 1.17.17
Articles/Reports
- A Matter of Time (Exe Summary) – Urban Institute 2017-1
- Cole v. Collier—Prelim. Injunction 7.19.2017-1
- Crime Survivors Speak Report(1)
- The Responsible Prison Project
- How to Cut the Prison Population by 50%
- A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons
- The Tricky Business of Measuring Crime and Punishment The Marshall Project (The punishment rate in Texas between 1983 and 2013 grew by 178% – Pew Charitable Trust)
- How Many Americans are Unnecessarily Incarcerated Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law 2016
- Time Served-The high cost, low return of longer prison terms The Pew Charitable Trusts June 2012
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Cutting Corrections Costs – Earned Time Policies for State Prisoners National Conference of State Legislators July 2009
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Every Second – The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families FWD.us December 2018
- LEVERS OF CHANGE IN PAROLE RELEASE AND REVOCATION May 2019