by Michael Chancellor | Nov 29, 2022 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article contains graphic imagery. Andre Thomas will be executed on April 5, 2023, in Texas, after the United States Supreme Court rejected a request to review his case. Called “one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history,” his long...
by Michael Chancellor | Dec 29, 2021 | Opinion
I spent nearly six years leading the mental health department at the Allan B. Polunsky Maximum Security Prison in east Texas. This prison housed “death row” (DR), as well as a significant number of offenders in administrative segregation (AdSeg), more widely referred...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 24, 2021 | Opinion
I breathed a small sigh of relief after the tumultuous election of 2020 came to an end, hoping things would change for many waiting to flee harm and danger, whether from their own countries or ours in detention centers. Gone would be the days of children in cages,...
by Skye Perryman | Sep 14, 2021 | Opinion
The nation’s attention has turned to Texas over the past two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court permitted a law to go into effect that bans abortion and enables private citizens to enforce the ban against medical professionals and others in a person’s support system...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 8, 2021 | Opinion
It’s early September, and one of the houses we pass on our neighborhood walk already has a ghost on their front door. They must like Halloween a lot more than we do. We have two pumpkins already, but only because the vine volunteered from our compost soil, and we let...
