The Marshall Project | When COVID-19 Hit a Texas Jail, an Activist Demanded Change |
The Appeal | Pregnant Women Allege Abuse in Texas Jails |
Fort Worth Weekly | Humanizing Life Behind Bars |
Arnold Ventures | An Inside Look at Texas Jails During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
NBC News | “Animals At The Zoo Get Better Treatment” Inside Texas’ Frigid Jails |
Washington Post | Texas Inmates Endure Freezing Temperatures |
TIME | Nearly 200,000 People Still Lack Power Amid Snow, Subzero Temperatures Across Texas. Here’s How To Help. |
Washington Post Op-Ed | Why Reimagining Safety Looks Different in Rural America Authored by Executive Director Krish Gundu |
Texas Tribune | Texas Jails and Prisons See Brutal Cold And Overfilled Toilets In Winter Storm |
Huffington Post | People in Texas Jails are “Freezing,’ without Hot Food or Running Water |
CBS News | It’s Like We’re Not Even Human: Texas Inmates Face Frigid Temperatures During Weather Crisis |
Dallas Observer | As COVID-19 Spreads, A Fight to Shutter Parts of Dallas County Jail |
Texas Observer | Clogged Inside Snow Outside: How The Winter Storm Exacerbated Problems in Texas Lock-Ups |
BreakThrough News | A Nation in Chains: Mass Incarceration in Black America: Goldie VanZandt & Krish Gundu interview |
Tyler Morning Telegraph | Pandemic adds new complications for jails struggling to help inmates with mental illness |
CNN | Jails and Prisons were hit hard by Covid-19. Experts say they need to be prioritized for the vaccines |
Texas Observer | How Texas Jails Avoid Investigations of Deaths |
D Magazine | A Story of Two Deaths at the Collin County Jail |
Mother Jones | It’s Terrifying, It’s Almost Crippling: Texas Jails and Prisons |
Vice News | Texas Jails Were Freezing and Smelled Like Urine |
NPR Short Wave | How the Pandemic Has Played Out Behind Bars |
Blue Tent Philanthropy | How a Tiny Group of Activists Built a Criminal Justice Reform Organization |
The New Yorker | A Fight to Expose the Hidden Human Costs of Incarceration |
Dallas Morning News | Texas Community Bail Funds Grow |
Spectrum News | Who Belongs Behind Bars: Texas Bail Reform Debated |
KLTV News Tyler | East Texas jail advocate speaks against bill that would make it harder for some to bond out |
Houston Chronicle Op-Ed | Despite New Law, Texas still has far to go on bail reform Authored by Jerome VanZandt, a formerly incarcerated combat veteran and TJP community member |
KWTX News Waco | Area county jail populations continue to climb amid pandemic |
Tyler Morning Telegraph | Jailed Army Veteran To Be Moved to Medical Facility Following Protest |
Texas Observer | “Locked Up and Left to Die” How Deaths in Texas Jails are Ignored and Unresolved |
Dallas Observer | A Texas Man Begged for Mental Health Help. Instead, He Ended Up in Jail Time and Again |
Dallas Observer | In Texas Jails Some People End Up ‘Lost in the System’ for Months or More |
Houston Chronicle | Vague standards, weak enforcement endanger Texas jail inmates, government watchdog finds |
Houston Chronicle | On July 4th, Texans’ Reflect on Lives, Fortune and Sacred Honor’ made in the Declaration of Independence |
CBS 19 | Covid-19 Incites Tyler Advocate to Focus on Jail Conditions |
Fort Worth Weekly | Tarrant county finally uses cite and release |
Tyler Morning Telegraph | Smith County Commissioners Court continues to battle concerns over jail population and Covid-19 spread |
Fort Worth Weekly Op-Ed | Left Behind Authored by then Texas Jail Project staff member Tamera Hutcherson |
Fort Worth Weekly | Hitting the Fort’ with Texas Jail Project |
Dallas Morning News | Response to the Editorial Board |