What We're Reading
News that caught our attention or cited the Texas Justice Initiative from across the Lone Star State and beyond.
Protests spread over police shootings. Police promised reforms. Every year, they still shoot and kill nearly 1,000 people.
Published on June 8, 2020The Washington Post has tracked fatal officer-involved shootings across the country since 2015, and the total numbers haven't changed much. Based on TJI's data from reports filed with the Attorney General's office, about 10 percent of the fatal shootings tracked by The Washington Post occur in Texas.
George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America
Published on June 6, 2020A group of "concerned physicians" penned an opinion piece in the Scientific American about how racism infiltrates autopsy reports.
A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons
Published on May 22, 2020The Marshall Project continues to collect data on the coronavirus' spread in state and federal prisons.
Court Ruling Paves Way for Wrongful Death Suit in 2013 UIW Police Shooting
Published on May 22, 2020Via the Rivard Report: In a recent decision, Texas Supreme Court justices "upheld an appeals court ruling that UIW is not a governmental unit and therefore would not be subject to sovereign immunity from being sued in connection with its law enforcement activities."
On the Media: Cruel and Unusual
Published on April 26, 2020In Brooke Gladstone's interview with Ashley Rubin, a prison scholar and professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii Mānoa, the two discuss the American penal system's complicated history with disease.