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By Melvin Halsey As temperatures dropped and conditions grew volatile last month, I thought about the more than 140,000 Texans living in Texas’ overpopulated prison system. This population – which dealt with unsanitary and dangerous conditions as pipes froze – is also disproportionately Black. Black people make up 13% of the population in Texas, but we’re 33% of the state’s incarcerated population. From enacting laws that target people of color to creating a probation system that keeps us in the prison cycle, it sometimes feels like we’re set up to fail. When Texas elected officials enacted the Anti Drug Abuse Act in 1986, Black people were targeted. In the years to follow, the Black incarceration rate increased 116%, as people were arrested and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for minor convictions like drug possession. These sentences ripped at the seams of communities, separating loved ones and forcing families to survive on reduced incomes, ....