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No Way Out: Texas prisoners describe what it s like inside lock-up during the coronavirus pandemic
A joint investigation with The Marshall Project exposes how COVID-19 was allowed to spread due to a lackluster response by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Credit: WFAA Published: 4:30 PM CST December 13, 2020 Updated: 4:40 PM CST December 13, 2020
More than 33,000 staff and prisoners have caught COVID-19 in the Texas prison system.
A WFAA investigation with The Marshall Project exposes how the coronavirus spread due to a lackluster response by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
For this project, reporters reviewed dozens of policy documents, internal reports, and leaked emails, along with hundreds of letters from prisoners and a handful of images and recordings captured on contraband cell phones. Interviews with more than 110 staff, prisoners and their family members.