Michele Y Deitch’s faculty profile
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Axios Austin April 24, 2024
1 big thing: COVID’s prison death toll
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Texas Tribune April 22, 2024
Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges
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Austin American-Statesman April 22, 2024
Texas inmates are ‘being cooked to death’ in state prisons, advocacy groups allege in suit
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C-SPAN's Washington Journal March 2, 2024
Michele Deitch on the U.S. Prison System
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The Denver Post September 23, 2023
Colorado’s county jails soon will have to meet basic standards. Should sheriffs play a key role in oversight?
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NPR September 23, 2023
1 in 4 inmate deaths happens in the same federal prison. Why?
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Texas Tribune September 21, 2023
Texas inmate killed by cellmate during a statewide prison lockdown
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Texas Public Radio September 21, 2023
Texas prison guards under criminal investigation over hospitalized inmate
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San Antonio Current September 20, 2023
Texas’ lockdown of its overheated state prisons is worsening an already volatile situation
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Texas Tribune January 9, 2023
Texas prisoners launching hunger strike to protest state’s harsh solitary confinement practices
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Newsweek July 20, 2022
Will Trump Do Time? What It Would Take to Convict the Former President
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USA Today July 18, 2022