Topic: incarceration

Posts related to the incarceration of individuals

  • Texas Jail Data: Phase 1

    January 23, 2023
    Eva Ruth Moravec
    A major focus at the Texas Justice Initiative is gathering and collecting data related to the Texas criminal justice
    system that is public but isn't made available in convenient or user-friendly ways. By making this data more
    easily accessible, we hope to provide context and insight on the Texas criminal justice system. We’
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  • COVID-19 drives spike in deaths in Texas prisons and jails in 2020

    December 22, 2021
    Margarita Bronshteyn, Elaine Ayo, and Eva Ruth Moravec
    According to custodial death data, 2020 was the deadliest year on record for people who were incarcerated in
    Texas prisons and jails (see graph above). At least 830 individuals died in Texas prisons and jails, an increase of
    46% over the previous year (2019), based on reports filed with the Texas Office of the Attorney Ge
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  • At the Crossroads of Risk Factors

    April 1, 2021
    Margarita Bronshteyn and Eva Ruth Moravec
    In June of 2020, the executive director of the Texas Justice Initiative, Eva Ruth
    Moravec, started noticing a disturbing trend in the custodial death data - an alarming
    number of Texas Department of Criminal Justice's announcements ab
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    At the Crossroads of Risk Factors