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Facing youth prison crisis, Texas lawmakers opt to build new facilities and funnel more kids to adult system

For more than a decade, Texas has been trying to slim down its youth prison system, which has been plagued by years of abuse scandals. This Legislature is reversing that course.

Texas House names representatives who will prosecute Ken Paxton case in Senate trial

Seven Republicans and five Democrats make up the board of managers who will handle the prosecution in the trial, which has yet to be scheduled.

Texas Legislature passes bill reining in โ€œrogueโ€ prosecutors

The GOP priority legislation could remove prosecutors from office if they donโ€™t pursue certain crimes. The bill gained traction after some Democratic district attorneys said they would not prosecute abortion-related crimes.

Republican priority bills fail as feud mires relations between Texas House and Senate

A failure to compromise on school choice, border security and, for now, property taxes all but assures the governor will call lawmakers back for a special legislative session.

Ken Paxton updates: Texas House impeachment vote will be an intra-GOP showdown

The embattled attorney general has criticized a Republican-led push that could remove him from office. The Texas House is set to debate 20 articles of impeachment at 1 p.m.

Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton blasts pending impeachment vote

Paxton said House members were showing โ€œcontempt for the electoral processโ€ and accused them of sabotaging his work challenging the Biden administration.

Despite budget surplus, Texas Legislature offers no money specifically for prison air conditioning

Stifling heat has killed inmates and exacerbated employee turnover in Texas prisons. But funding for air conditioning was whittled down in the draft budget released Thursday.

Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment. Hereโ€™s how that works in Texas.

The Texas Legislature has never removed an attorney general. If the House votes to impeach, the Senate will hold a trial.

Aide to Ken Paxton calls investigation into attorney general โ€œillegal,โ€ says Paxton canโ€™t be impeached

Chris Hilton, head of litigation in the attorney generalโ€™s office, told reporters that lawmakers canโ€™t oust Paxton. His comments came as a House committee met behind closed doors about its investigation into the stateโ€™s top lawyer.

What to know about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtonโ€™s long-running scandals and legal battles

Less than a year into his first term, Paxton was charged with felony securities fraud. The Justice Department is currently investigating bribery allegations against him as a Texas House committee conducts its own probe into his behavior.

Listen: Through art, keepsakes and advocacy, families are making sure the 21 Uvalde victims are not forgotten

Wednesday marks exactly a year since a mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. The community continues to grapple with the trauma and pain, and for those who lost someone that day, theyโ€™re determined to keep the memories of their loved ones alive.

Senate priorities on bail, Ten Commandments in schools stall out in Texas House as key deadline passes

The two chambers have been at odds over property tax relief and school choice, but on Tuesday night, those divisions spilled over into priorities the bodies had previously agreed upon.

Mandatory 10-year sentences for some crimes involving guns revived by Texas Senate

The idea appeared to die in the Texas House over the weekend, but senators kept it alive by grafting the proposal on to another piece of legislation.

Lawmakers try again to bar hypnosis-induced evidence from Texas criminal trials

Despite its tendency to distort memories, hypnosis has been used on witnesses in numerous investigations, including death penalty cases. Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a similar bill in 2021.

Gun safety advocates see signs of progress in first session after Uvalde shooting even though raise-the-age bill stalled

Emotions often ran high over a proposal to limit young adultsโ€™ access to some firearms. Lawmakers have largely prioritized school safety measures, but there was still progress for some gun-related legislation.

Texas Tribune, Frontline and Futuro Investigates are collaborating on a Uvalde shooting documentary that airs May 30

The film, โ€œAfter Uvalde: Guns, Grief and Texas Politics,โ€ will be broadcast nationally on PBS and also available for streaming.

Watch: A Uvalde family remembers their 10-year-old through the mementos he left behind

Evadulia Ortaโ€™s son, Rojรฉlio Torres, died in the school shooting in Uvalde last year. Her other children still collect Pokรฉmon cards to add to his collection, and his cousins play with his football.

Texas Houseโ€™s weekend off means key Senate bills die after missing a legislative deadline

Priority bills that died include a 10-year minimum sentencing for gun-related crimes, a ban on โ€œcritical race theoryโ€ at public universities and LGBTQ-related legislation. While the bills may be dead, lawmakers have a limited time to attach their ideas to legislation that are still alive.

Texas may soon have a process to remove local prosecutors who wonโ€™t pursue abortion, election cases

The bill would allow for the removal of prosecutors who adopt any policy to not pursue certain crimes, including some low-level theft and drug charges. The Senateโ€™s version will need to be reconciled with the House, which had carved out some exemptions.

After Title 42โ€™s end, Texas DPS pauses Austin patrols so officers can head to the border

Despite no major influx in border crossings, state troopers will be relocated to border cities. Austin and the Texas Department of Public Safety faced criticism for the racial disparities in state trooper arrests in the capital.

Bill striking unconstitutional state law that criminalized homosexuality fails to meet critical deadline in the Texas House

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texasโ€™ law banning sodomy in 2003. It took almost 20 years for Democrats to get a bill to repeal the defunct ban on the House calendar.

Texas House passes ban on devices that modify handguns, but averts vote on increasing age to buy semi-automatic rifles

A Texas lawmaker introduced an amendment that would have revived a proposal to raise the minimum age to buy certain semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 before it was ultimately withdrawn.

Daniel Perry is sentenced to 25 years for killing an Austin protester. Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to pardon him.

Perryโ€™s case has become an explosive political stew of arguments over gun rights, self-defense and racist social media posts. The governor dived in early, saying he would pardon Perry even before a judge handed down the sentence.

Deaths from firearms reach new highs in Texas, decades after lawmakers began weakening gun regulations

The rate of firearm-related deaths in Texas has reached a level not seen since the 1990s. Texas lawmakers have approved more than 100 bills that loosened gun restrictions since 2000.

Raise-the-age gun bill in peril as Texas House deadline looms

A day after a committee unexpectedly advanced a bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles, the legislation faces another make-or-break deadline.

โ€œNothing bad happens hereโ€: Allen residents say shooting has shattered the townโ€™s sense of safety

A mass shooting at this suburbโ€™s community hub โ€” the outlet mall โ€” has punctured the sense of security that drew many to Allen. โ€œThat could have been me and my boys,โ€ one local woman said.

Law enforcement analyzing digital devices of Allen mall shooter who had neo-Nazi beliefs

Local, state and federal authorities say they are trying to determine a motive behind the fatal shooting of eight people in North Texas on Saturday.

Allen mall shooting victims include three kids and a couple who leave behind their 6-year-old son

Texas authorities released the names of the eight victims killed this weekend. Their ages range from 3 to 37.

โ€œRight wing death squadโ€: What to know about the Allen shooterโ€™s suspected extremism

The shooterโ€™s โ€œRWDSโ€ patch offers troubling clues about his potential ideology โ€” and how it might connect to views that are common among white supremacist groups.

In surprise move days after Allen mall shooting, Texas House panel OKs bill raising age to buy semi-automatic rifles

The legislation would raise the age requirement for purchasing certain firearms, but likely wouldnโ€™t have been a hindrance to the Allen gunman obtaining a weapon. The bill still faces an uphill climb in the Legislature.

Driver charged with manslaughter after running red light and killing eight pedestrians in Brownsville

Police said itโ€™s still not known if the driver intentionally struck the crowd of immigrants waiting at a bus stop.

Gov. Greg Abbott focuses on border security in first address since Allen and Brownsville tragedies

Abbott announced the deployment of new โ€œTexas Tactical Border Forceโ€ units to El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley on Monday and Tuesday.

โ€œThis canโ€™t be happeningโ€: Allen becomes latest U.S. town to grapple with a mass shooting

After mall shooting, residents of the Dallas suburb are experiencing familiar rituals: mourning, anger and despair.

Republican leaders in Texas downplay guns, focus on mental health in aftermath of Allen shooting

President Joe Biden confirmed Sunday that the shooter used an AR-15 in the attack.

Seven killed outside Brownsville migrant shelter after car crashes into pedestrians

The driver has been detained, but authorities say it is unclear what caused the fatal crash at a Brownsville bus stop.

Gunman kills 8 people at a North Texas outlet mall

The shooter was also killed by a police officer after he opened fire in Allen. Gov. Greg Abbott called the shooting โ€œan unspeakable tragedy.โ€

Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.

Authorities announce capture of man suspected of killing 5 neighbors in San Jacinto County

Officials did not specify the location of his arrest on Tuesday night, but they said the suspect was being held at the Montgomery County jail where he was initially taken.

Once again, tension builds after state police are deployed to a major Texas city

A month after the Texas Department of Public Safety began patrolling Austin streets, city officials have both praised a drop in violent crime and condemned the operationโ€™s disparate impact on Latino and Black residents. In 2019, Dallas faced the same challenges.

TribCast: Texasโ€™ troubled juvenile justice system

In todayโ€™s episode, we discuss the problems in the Texas state agency intended to rehabilitate children who have committed crimes โ€” and whether the Legislature is eyeing any solutions.

After backlash, Abbott expresses some regret after labeling all Cleveland shooting victims โ€œillegal immigrantsโ€

The governorโ€™s focus on immigration status, not the loss of life, draws rebukes from across the country.

FBI, Texas authorities search for gunman who killed 5 neighbors in San Jacinto County

In the face of mass shootings in Texas, state leaders have made it easier to access guns.

Texas imprisoned Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. when he was 11, purportedly for his own good. Five years later, he returned home in a casket.

โ€œThey didnโ€™t try to fix the brokenness,โ€ his mother says. โ€œThey just broke him more.โ€

โ€œA way to throw kids awayโ€: Texasโ€™ troubled juvenile justice department is sending more children to adult prisons

Moving the most violent and troubled youths to adult prison makes it easier to help others in juvenile facilities, some prosecutors and lawmakers say. Youth justice advocates say Texas is giving up on the children who most need help.

House passes bill to rein in โ€œrogueโ€ prosecutors

The legislation is in response to elected prosecutors in Texasโ€™ large, left-leaning counties who have said they will not prosecute abortion cases.

Protesters decry stalled fentanyl test strip bill; Texas House passes get-tough criminal penalties

Stuck in committee, the test-strip legislation has support from Gov. Greg Abbott and bipartisan lawmakers, who see it as a way to save lives.

A divided Uvalde hasnโ€™t had time to heal, speakers say

During a Texas Tribune event marking one year since the shooting at Robb Elementary School, parents, mental health experts and faith leaders talked about how the path to recovery isnโ€™t the same for everybody.

Seven Texas prison employees face dismissal over 16-year-old inmateโ€™s suicide

Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. had been transferred from a Texas youth facility to an adult prison despite a long history of suicidal behavior. Five guards and two supervisors allegedly failed to check on him.

Months after being freed, Afghan soldier arrested at border is now on a path toward asylum and healing

Wasi and his brother pray for their familyโ€™s safety as the holy month of Ramadan ends and the Taliban continues to rule Afghanistan.

Texas judge cancels Ivan Cantu execution after new evidence suggests he might be innocent

Two jurors from Cantuโ€™s 2001 double-murder trial now support his appeals, which claim prosecutors relied on false testimony and withheld crucial evidence.

San Antonio to vote on progressive wish list on abortion, marijuana, low-level arrests

Proposition A on the May 6 ballot will test the cityโ€™s political climate and progressivesโ€™ ability to advance a controversial agenda.

U.S. Supreme Court lets Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed pursue DNA testing in bid to prove innocence

Reed has long said he was wrongfully convicted for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. His lawyers will now be able to renew their legal fight for testing of crucial crime scene evidence.

In overnight testimony, Uvalde victimsโ€™ family members call on Texas lawmakers to raise age to buy semi-automatic guns

The families of Uvalde shooting victims waited hours to testify at a House committee hearing in support of House Bill 2744, which would raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.

Texas House committee debates firearms bills filed in response to Uvalde shooting

The House Select Committee on Community Safety is scheduled to hear testimony on bills that would change how people buy firearms and how authorities report those purchases. One of these bills would raise the minimum age to 21 years old to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles.

After years of little progress, Texas gun control and safety advocates see some small openings for dialogue at the Capitol

Many bills that would limit access to firearms or ammunition likely wonโ€™t become law anytime soon. But people who advocate at the Texas Capitol see emerging signs that thereโ€™s appetite for finding some middle ground.

Law enforcement says no explosives detected after bomb threat called in to state Capitol

The Texas Department of Public Safety did a sweep of Capitol grounds with K-9 dogs and found no explosive devices.

Unsealed evidence shows racist comments, threats of violence made by Daniel Perry before killing of Austin protester

Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants to pardon Perry, who was convicted by a Travis County jury last week.

Watch: While lawmakers consider legalizing fentanyl test strips, this volunteer isnโ€™t waiting to distribute them to his West Texas community

Michael Prado, with the grassroots organization West Texas Harm Reduction, is on a mission to distribute fentanyl test strips, syringes and overdose-reversing drugs like naloxone to his community.

Lawmakersโ€™ attempts to tighten drug laws would saddle crime labs with an unsustainable workload

Texas lawmakers want tougher criminal penalties for possession of delta-8 and fentanyl. But that would mean much more work for the crime labs handling most of the drug testing for the stateโ€™s 254 counties.

Texas House budgets $545 million for prison air conditioning. The Senate hasnโ€™t offered anything.

Sweltering heat has killed inmates, driven away prison workers and cost taxpayers millions in lawsuits. The House budget would provide air conditioning for 46 prisons, but itโ€™s unclear if the Senate will sign on.

Texas House passes bill decriminalizing fentanyl test strips

The bill would take fentanyl test strips off the stateโ€™s โ€œdrug paraphernaliaโ€ list, meaning it would no longer be a crime to carry them.

Texas Senate approves bill that would create mandatory prison or probation terms for some gun crimes

Sen. Joan Huffman said the bill was in response to increased violent crime since 2019. Legislative researchers could not determine how the bill would affect the stateโ€™s prison population.

Texas Republicans quickly blast Donald Trump indictment, calling it โ€œcatastrophicโ€ and politically motivated

Trump became the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, in his case over alleged hush money payments made to an adult film star. Many of his fellow Republicans in Texas lambasted the legal development.

Texas House delays final vote on barring the death penalty for mentally ill defendants

The chamber has repeatedly passed legislation in recent sessions eliminating the death penalty in cases of severe mental illness, but hardline conservatives are now pushing back.

Texas Republicans, once allied with prosecutors, seek to rein them in

Some local district and county attorneys have said they will not pursue abortion-related cases, or prioritize certain drug, property and election crimes.

Texas Senate budget writers propose billions for teacher raises, lower property taxes and water projects

The Senate Finance Committeeโ€™s proposals wonโ€™t be voted on and sent to the full chamber until April.

TribCast: Police officersโ€™ fear of the AR-15 in Robb Elementary

In this weekโ€™s episode, we discuss the weapon used by the school shooter in Uvalde and new details that highlight how fear of the gun contributed to the botched police response.

In rural counties, Texas law puts low-income defendants at a disadvantage

A two-tiered system gives less populated counties more time to provide court-appointed lawyers, requiring creative responses to a long-standing problem.

Texas bill requiring 10-year prison sentences for gun felonies faces opposition from criminal justice and firearm advocates

Under Senate Bill 23, all felonies involving a gun would incur a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. Itโ€™s meant to curb crime, despite the lack of correlation between harsher sentences and crime rates.

Lawmakers offer stark choices for ending the crisis in Texasโ€™ youth prisons โ€” shut them all down, or build more

Plagued by decades of scandals over sexual and physical abuse of children, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is at a crossroads.

Texas executes Arthur Brown Jr. for Houston slayings despite claims of innocence, intellectual disability

Brownโ€™s appeals ran out after almost 30 years on death row. Defense attorneys claim Harris County prosecutors hid evidence pointing to another suspect in the 1992 shooting deaths of four people in a Houston drug house.

Ken Paxtonโ€™s whistleblowers ask Texas Supreme Court to take up their case as $3.3 million settlement in jeopardy

Lawyers for four former employees who accused the attorney general of firing them for reporting alleged crimes to authorities say Paxton wonโ€™t agree to finalizing the deadline by the end of this legislative session.

Texas experts dive into the state of public defense 60 years after Gideon decision

In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that the Sixth Amendmentโ€™s guarantee of a right to a lawyer applies to criminal defendants. Together with the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, The Texas Tribune hosted a series of conversations Friday on public defense in Texas.

Texas Education Agency would have new power to enforce school safety plans under Senate bill

The bill, introduced months after the Uvalde school shooting, also allocates more funds to the stateโ€™s school safety allotment, which is money given to districts to improve campus security.

DPS sent at least 3,000 driverโ€™s licenses to organized crime group targeting Asian Texans

A Chinese crime operation bypassed the password clues of Texas.gov by using stolen identity information to fraudulently obtain replacement driverโ€™s licenses.

Gov. Greg Abbott starts state task force on street takeovers

During a recent street racing incident, Austin residents faced long 911 wait times. City officials say they need to increase staffing for 911 call takers, but state license and background check requirements make it difficult to fill positions.

Texas Senate revives effort to make illegal voting a felony

Lawmakers lowered the penalty to a misdemeanor in 2021, but then almost immediately began discussing raising it back.

In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp

Police often canโ€™t tell if a cannabis vape pen is derived from marijuana or legal hemp, like the delta-8 products on display in gas stations across Texas. That doesnโ€™t stop them from from making felony arrests in high schools.

Texas death row inmate Andre Thomasโ€™ attorneys apply for clemency, citing mental illness

At issue is whether Thomas, who gouged out his eyes after confessing the 2004 murders of his estranged wife, their son and her daughter, is competent to be executed in April.

Uvaldeโ€™s state lawmakers face an uphill battle raising the age limit for semi-automatic guns. Theyโ€™re trying anyway.

Many relatives of Uvalde victims back bills that state Rep. Tracy King and Sen. Roland Gutierrez are pushing in the Legislature. But limits on gun access donโ€™t fare well at the Capitol.

FBI announces investigations into deaths at Harris County Jail

Since Jacoby Pillowโ€™s death last month, at least three others have died at Harris County Jail. And the year before, the jail hit a record-high of 27 in-custody deaths.

Judge rejects bid by families of plane crash victims to throw out deal letting Boeing avoid prosecution

The families say they were shut out of discussions over the deal between the federal government and Boeing. U.S. District Judge Reed Oโ€™Connor said courts donโ€™t have authority to override it.

Texas DPS scraps plan for $1.2 billion active-shooter training facility

The Texas Department of Public Safety is instead asking lawmakers for $381.5 million to upgrade its current facilities with better technology, dormitories and cafeteria for trainees from across the state.

Appeals court ruling says alleged domestic abusers have a constitutional right to keep their guns

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which continued a string of court decisions citing the Second Amendment to erase gun restrictions.

State Sen. Charles Schwertner arrested on suspicion of drunken driving

Schwertner, a Georgetown Republican, was booked into the Travis County jail at 2:12 a.m.

Texas executes Wesley Ruiz despite ongoing fight over stateโ€™s use of old lethal injection drugs

Ruiz was convicted in the 2007 shooting death of Dallas police Senior Cpl. Mark Nix after a high-speed chase.

โ€œWe are humans back hereโ€: As Texas hunger strike wanes, prisoners speak out against solitary confinement

After 21 days, the last of many Texas prisoners to consistently refuse food ended his hunger strike. In letters to The Texas Tribune, two prisoners spoke out on the dire solitary confinement conditions that led them to starve themselves.

TribCast: The fight against solitary confinement in Texas

In this weekโ€™s episode, Matthew speaks with Jolie about a hunger strike in Texas prisons and a lawsuit seeking to reform the use of solitary confinement on death row.

In a Texas federal courtroom, families of those killed in Boeing 737 MAX crashes finally have their voices heard

The airplane manufacturer was accused of fraud for misleading federal regulators about the safety of its jets, but stayed out of court by making a deal with prosecutors. Victimsโ€™ families say they were cut out of the process.

Texas death row prisoners spend decades in solitary confinement. A lawsuit wants to end that โ€œcruelโ€ treatment.

Men sentenced to death in Texas are held in isolation until their execution dates, with little human contact, medical care or legal help, according to a lawsuit filed to improve treatment of the condemned.

After fumbled Uvalde shooting response, Texas senator wants to make it easier to sue law enforcement officers

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat, introduced a package of legislation that includes a bill that would end qualified immunity, which shields government officials from liability for constitutional violations.

After 10 days, dozens of Texas prisoners remain on hunger strike protesting solitary confinement practices

Although the number of men refusing food has steadily declined, 38 are still starving themselves to protest Texas policies that often keep prisoners in isolation for years or even decades.

After alleged sexual assault of two children living in state care, another foster shelter closes

Two girls in the care of Child Protective Services were allegedly sexually assaulted in October after sneaking out of a facility run by the state agency. Advocates say itโ€™s a symptom of the Texas foster care systemsโ€™ problems.

A year after FBI raids Henry Cuellarโ€™s home, no arrests and no answers

One year later, there have been no arrests or charges filed related to the case. Cuellar maintains that he was never the target of the investigation and will ultimately be cleared of wrongdoing.

Texas teens embark on an idealistic quest to shut down the stateโ€™s last five youth prisons

Spurred by reports of inhumane conditions at Texas Juvenile Justice Department facilities, Austin-area teenagers are lobbying the Legislature to reform the system.

Feds wonโ€™t seek death penalty against alleged El Paso Walmart gunman

The federal government has largely avoided pursuing the death penalty under President Biden.

More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices

Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.

The fringe ideology of โ€œconstitutional sheriffsโ€ is attracting believers within Texas law enforcement

Some 50 Texas sheriffs and numerous elected officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can single-handedly overrule state and federal law. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which offered state peace officers credit for the seminars, is now investigating.

Questions about validity of shaken baby syndrome not enough to give Texas death row inmate new trial, court rules

Robert Roberson was sentenced to death for killing his 2-year-old daughter. Experts have since backtracked on the science used in part to win his conviction.

Uvalde DA gets initial state police report on school shooting but doesnโ€™t expect full investigation for months

The preliminary report has not been made public by either the district attorneyโ€™s office or the state. The Texas Rangers are conducting a criminal investigation into the shooting at Robb Elementary.

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