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Texas prisons are named after slave owners. This is 2021, right?
Texas prisons carry the legacy of slavery. They shouldn’t.
An inmate works outdoors on the hoe quad outside a modern-day Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer)
In the midst of the nation’s reckoning with social justice issues and Confederate statues, it is time that corrections facilities in Texas no longer bear the names of people celebrated for their participation in slavery and Jim Crow politics.
This isn’t a new idea but one that state Rep. James White, R-Woodville, is the latest to put on the table. Recently, he asked the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to rename the Darrington, Goree and Eastham prisons in southeast Texas to honor those who have made positive contributions to criminal justice, such as judges, chaplains, and fallen correctional officers. We urge the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to rename t
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A Republican who has led the Texas Legislature’s House Committee on Corrections for years is asking the state to rename prisons that honor slave owners and those tied to convict leasing, a system where Black people were funneled into the prison system and then leased out to private industries for unpaid labor.
State Rep. James White said Friday he is asking the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to rename several prisons and, in an interview with The Texas Tribune, specifically named the Darrington, Goree and Eastham prisons.
Texas Republican asks state to rename several of the state’s prisons honoring slave owners
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, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
A Republican who has led the Texas Legislature’s House corrections committee for years is asking the state to rename prisons that honor slave owners and those tied to convict leasing, a system where Black people were funneled into the prison system and then leased out to private industries for unpaid labor.
State Rep. James White said Friday he is asking the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to rename several prisons and, in an interview with The Texas Tribune, specifically named the Darrington, Goree and Eastham prisons.