Category: TDS News

Dear Supporters, The promise of the American legal system is that people will be held accountable for their own actions. In Texas, we fail to follow through on that promise.  Under Texas’s Law of the Parties, people are  spending decades prison—and have even been sentenced to death and executed—because they were convicted of crimes committed by other people. […]

Dear Supporters, As we enter the winter season and embark on this time of reflection and thanks-giving, I wanted to share a video about our team at Texas Defender Service. These are the people who dedicate their careers to saving lives and reuniting families here in Texas, the epicenter of mass incarceration on the planet. This year alone, our […]

Dear Supporters, At Texas Defender Service, we advocate for the humanity of the unseen and the unheard. Our team does this work with incredible grace, kindness, and dedication to those they serve. As exoneree Anthony Graves says of our team in the video below, “They are bringing a human perspective to the game.”  Will you give a […]

Dear Supporters, This past year has been an exciting one for us at TDS. We continued our advocacy for people facing society’s harshest punishment, the death penalty. And we expanded our impact to serve people facing excessive punishments beyond the death penalty here in Texas, Ground Zero for mass incarceration. Will you give a gift to […]