The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said hardback books are increasingly being used to smuggle in drugs. Nonprofits ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says starting April 1, hardback books and used books will no longer be allowed, ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will no longer allow books with hard covers in an effort to prevent drugs from getting into their facilities, they announced Friday.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) announced on Friday it will be implementing new measures to combat illegal narcotics from being smuggled into its facilities. Beginning April 1, the ...

Texas prisons will allow only new softcover books as part of a contraband crackdown.

Albert Einstein once said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them." As someone incarcerated in a Texas prison, I thought of that when I heard about the ...

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The Huntsville Unit, the state’s oldest prison in Texas dating to 1849, is shown here on Oct. 10, 2017. The state of Texas is defending its prison system against a lawsuit that says the lack of air ...

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