Month: May 2025

Texas’s Efforts to Roll Back Protections for the Innocent

Texas’s Efforts to Roll Back Protections for the Innocent

Dear Friends, I wanted to make sure you saw exoneree Michael Morton’s recent opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle denouncing Texas’s efforts to roll back protections for the innocent. Michael Morton was wrongfully convicted of the murder of his wife in 1987. Separated from his then-three-year-old son, Michael spent nearly 25 years in prison before a dedicated team of […]

Remembering Justice-Impacted Mothers this Mother’s Day

Remembering Justice-Impacted Mothers this Mother’s Day

Dear Friends, As Mother’s Day approaches, we remember the thousands of mothers incarcerated in Texas prisons. Eighty percent of women incarcerated in Texas prisons are mothers of children under the age of 18. The number of women incarcerated in Texas has increased by 951% since 1980, at more than twice the rate of male incarceration. Women in […]