Dear Supporters, For Texas Defender Service, 2022 has been a year of reflection and evolution. With your input and encouragement, we have determined that now is the time for us to expand our mission to fight for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the Lone Star State. Together with you, we will […]
Dear Supporters, As we turn to the holidays and the coming new year, I want to take a moment to express our gratitude for your support. This season, we lean into hope – hope for a future where people trapped in the criminal-legal system are treated with dignity. We focus on honoring the humanity of […]
Dear Friends: We have exciting news to share with you! Today, the Court of Criminal Appeals granted relief for TDS client Juan Segundo, and modified his capital sentence to life imprisonment because he is intellectually disabled. At TDS, we protect the most vulnerable in our society—those with extreme mental illness, intellectual disability, and cognitive impairments—from […]
Dear Friends: Listen to her words. And then join her call. Please watch this video from a correctional officer who works on Texas’s death row. She is calling on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to save Ramiro Gonzales’s life. And then join your voice with hers. Please email the Board of Pardons and […]
Dear Friends, “Love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, all these actions of God—that’s what’s really, really been so instrumental in my life.” These are the words of Ramiro Gonzales, a man the State of Texas plans to execute on July 13. Please watch this video about Ramiro’s life. Today—and in the coming weeks—we will be sharing his […]
Dear Friends, Today I have the joy of sharing some incredible news with you. Because of the work of TDS mitigation specialist Sam Chammings, one of our clients—an elderly woman with chronic medical conditions—has been released from a Texas prison to a nursing home. Our client’s case is part of a new project we launched […]
