Dear Friends, One of the hidden features of our criminal-legal system in Texas is its enormous impact on women. The number of women incarcerated in Texas has increased by 951% since 1980, at more than twice the rate of male incarceration. Texas incarcerates more women than any other state.Eighty percent of women incarcerated in Texas prisons are […]
Dear Friends, We wanted to pass along the thrilling news that House Bill 115— proposed legislation by Republican House Member David Cook that would reform Texas’s junk science law—passed the Texas House of Representatives this session by a huge margin. In our report An Unfulfilled Promise: Assessing the Efficacy of Article 11.073, published last year, we found that Texas’s […]
Dear Friends, I wanted to make sure you knew that efforts to roll back the Michael Morton Act—Texas’s landmark law protecting the actually innocent from wrongful conviction—have been defeated! 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 […]
