Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune
Jolie McCullough reports on criminal justice issues and policy for The Texas Tribune.
After Pursuing An Indictment, Starr County District Attorney Drops Murder Charge Over Self-Induced Abortion
After charging a woman with murder over a self-induced abortion, forcing her to spend three days in jail and drawing national attention, Starr County...
Texas’ Border Operation Is Meant To Stop Cartels And Smugglers. More Often, It Arrests...
For the past year, thousands of Texas National Guard members and state troopers have been sweeping through brush along the Rio Grande and cruising...
Texas Continues Imprisoning Migrants Without Filing Charges Or Appointing Lawyers, Court Filings Claim
As court fights continue over the constitutionality of Gov. Greg Abbott’s mass arrests of migrants at the Texas-Mexico border, new legal filings describe an...
In Latest Blunder, Charges Dropped Against Migrants Arrested In Texas Governor’s Border Crackdown Because...
Trespassing charges filed against dozens of migrants arrested under Gov. Greg Abbott’s “catch and jail” border security initiative were dropped last week because court...
A Year after George Floyd’s Murder, Only a Few of Texas Lawmakers’ Police Reform...
A year ago, longtime Houston resident George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott promised his death would not...
After Sweltering Temperatures Killed Texas Prisoners, Lawmakers Vote to Install Air Conditioning
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As Texas braces for its notoriously scorching summer temperatures, the state House agreed to...
Texas’ Larger Cities Would Face Financial Penalties for Cutting Police Budgets under Bill Approved...
The Texas House on Friday passed a bill to financially penalize the state's largest cities if they cut their police budgets. The measure was...
Texas Hasn’t Said When or How Inmates Will Receive the Coronavirus Vaccine
Texas’ prisons and jails have been coronavirus hot spots throughout the pandemic. At least about 200 Texas inmates have died with COVID-19. So have...
Federal Court Orders Texas Prison System To Provide Hand Sanitizer For Some Geriatric Inmates...
A federal judge ordered the Texas prison system on Tuesday to provide more protective measures against the coronavirus, like hand sanitizer for prisoners who...
Texas Put Hundreds of Hours Into Finding and Arresting Police Brutality Protesters. Lawyers Call...
Nearly a month after Keegan Godsey attended an unruly protest against police brutality at the Texas Capitol in May, state police officers arrested the...
