Texas should close prisons and jails with staffing challenges, state oversight panel says
The Texas agency that manages the state’s prisons and jails should close correctional facilities with staffing challenges and ...
Texas Standard1d
Texas prisons don’t have enough guards. Filling the gaps is costing the state money.
Texas prisons were so short-staffed in 2023, the state had to shuttle correctional officers to far-flung facilities where ...
Houston Chronicle7d
How Texas prisons are spending millions on a 'dangerous' staffing crisis as population soars
Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 the state spent more than $111,000 on rental cars for correctional officers to drive to far-flung rural facilities to cover temporary shifts that couldn ...
Forbes5d
Prisons Across Country Face Challenge Of Finding Workers
Texas prisons were so short staffed in 2023 that the state spent $14 million on rental cars and hotels shuffling existing staff around the state to cover shortages at other prisons to cover a 30% ...
As TdA expands in 22 states, Texas law enforcement continue crackdown
As crime expands in at least 22 states by confirmed Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members, Texas law enforcement ...