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Texas Prison Officials Demoted, Fired after Disciplinary Quota System and Planted Contraband Exposed
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2018, page 34
In April 2018, prisoners at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s (TDCJ) Ramsey Unit in Rosharon smuggled out of the facility and into the hands of the Houston Chronicle records that proved the existence of a quota system for disciplinary charges, as well as threats against guards who failed to ...
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