U.S. District Judge David Folsom An inmate already serving time in a Texas state correctional facility has now been sentenced to more than three years in a federal prison for threatening a U.S. district judge in Texarkana.
Galveston Seawall GALVESTON � Alleging the Galveston County Sheriff's Office jeopardized their safety by not evacuating ahead of Hurricane Ike, two Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates have filed handwritten lawsuits against the former sheriff and others in Galveston County District Court.
Following four defeats, an inmate's hopes of keeping his fifth lawsuit alive against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice were crushed on Dec. 18, when justices on Texas' Ninth Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling dismissing his suit.
Justice Hollis Horton Claiming she was threatened with termination if she disciplined a black subordinate, Bonnie Young, a white woman, felt her supervisor was purposely putting her between a rock and hard place so she could eventually be replaced by an African American.
Inmate Anthony Leon Summers' brief legal pursuit against Texas' attorney general ended June 26, as Beaumont justices affirmed a trial court's ruling that his suit -- alleging murder conspiracy -- is frivolous.
An inmate's appeal to reinstate a "frivolous" lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was denied by justices on the Ninth Court of Appeals on Thursday, Nov. 8. Prisoner Cedric Nickerson claims 34 TDCJ employees were bullying him and other inmates.
The wife of an inmate who died in a Jefferson County correctional facility has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the prison's medical staff and the hospital that treated him.
An inmate convicted of sexual assault is suing the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for 10 years of back wages for labor he performed while incarcerated, claiming the prison subjected him to slavery.