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Frozen in Place: How Winter Storms Push Texas Jails and Prisons to the Brink

Loaded on April 1, 2022 by Tyler Hicks published in Prison Legal News April, 2022, page 18
Filed under: Exposure to Cold. Location: Texas.

by Tyler Hicks

When Jerome Van Zandt was booked into Harris County Jail in November 2020, he was optimistic. “There’s no way I’ll be here more than three months,” he told himself. A Navy veteran with 20 years of service, he had been caught with less than a gram of ...

 

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