Harvey Floods Inmates Round-Up

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Interviews with Ricco Garcia, Pamela Starsia and Azzurra Crispino in front of Texas Department of Criminal Justice building as they are eventually successful in delivering the administrative filing to TDCJ:

This was after being initially denied access to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice offices to deliver the administrative filing. There is only one person who is allowed to accept mail at TDCJ, evidently, and their office doesn't have a lobby or a receptionist:

Azzurra Crispino of PAPS and PLAN on the Empire Files with Abby Martin.

For additional information on sanitation at TDCJ read our #PortaPottyGate Blog, and watch our video below.

TDCJ video about Hurricane Harvey

Link to our unit-by-unit spreadsheet

 

BUREAU OF PRISONS

Video of the action at the BOP Regional Office in Grand Prarie, TX

(Facebook Live Video)

Video of King Downing, Director of Mass Defense at National Lawyer's Guild: 

Paul Stanley Holdorf of PLAN at Bureau of Prisons

Christine Hopkins delivering PLAN's administrative filing to BOP:

COVERAGE

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https://youtu.be/cb4PH7ak_iU

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/opinions/prisoners-pet-irma-opinion-jones-jackson/ 


http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-texas-families-protest-conditions-in-storm-damaged-texas-prison-9866262

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/09/11/texas-congressman-why-didnt-beaumont-prisons-didnt-evacuate/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/us/hurricane-harvey-prison-evacuation.html

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/9/8/texas_prisoners_are_facing_horrid_conditions 

https://www.newyorker.com/sections/news/weathering-a-hurricane-in-prison/amp

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41874-no-toilet-no-ventilation-prisoners-describe-horrific-conditions-in-harvey-s-flood-zone

http://m.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Van-with-six-drowned-family-members-father-12177433.php

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/austin-congressman-joins-civil-rights-group-on-beaumont-prison-probe-9781022

http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-prisons-take-hit-from-Harvey-complaints-of-12172438.php?cmpid=fb-mobile

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/harvey-beaumont-prison-deaths-rumors-mistreatment-12174531.php

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-weather/hurricaneharvey/article/Harvey-beaumont-prison-inmates-speak-out-texas-12167587.php

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Two-more-state-prisons-evacuated-due-to-Hurricane-12105584.php

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/prisoners-face-horrifying-conditions-limited-water-after?utm_term=.loL5mPE4p#.ndJD3a4bE