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Texas Prison System Declared Unconstitutional; Reforms Ordered

In a class-action suit by Texas prisoners with the U. S. as a plaintiff-intervenor, a Texas federal district court held that Texas prisons: (1) were grossly overcrowded; (2) had wholly inadequate sanitation and recreation facilities; (3) used inadequate disciplinary procedures; (4) allowed inadequate access to courts; and (5) used sanitation ...

 

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