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The effort to create a public defenders office in Travis County isn't dead after all.At its board meeting this morning, the Texas Indigent Defense…
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About 20 young people sit across from one another in two teams in a community room at CitySquare Opportunity Center in South Dallas. Deontra Wade walks…
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Since 2007, Houston Democratic state Rep. Garnet Coleman – and others – have tried in vain to get just five words into Texas' hate crimes law: "or gender…
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From Texas Standard:The federal prison inmate population is about 183,000. That could be cut by almost a third in the course of one year, if lawmakers on…
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A Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit is suing the Texas Department of Public Safety over its automatic driver license-suspension program. The suit alleges…
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From Texas Standard:It's something you don't hear often in the news: President Donald Trump is endorsing a measure that has the support of Democrats and…
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From Texas Standard:Texas has long had a “tough on crime” reputation, and the numbers back that up.Texas is seventh in the nation when it comes to its…
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Hundreds of community activists from across Texas gathered on the steps of the state Capitol on Tuesday to call on Republicans and Democrats to pass…
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the Honorable Greg Mathis, former Superior Court judge for Michigan's…
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From Texas Standard.Arnold Darby, a 69-year-old inmate at Huntsville's Goree Unit, speaks with the Texas Standard about his craft as a bootmaker. While in…