Entries tagged with “Polunsky Unit — Texas Death Row”

May 05, 2020

Texas Prisoners File Lawsuit Over Death-Row Conditions During Pandemic

Alleging that the Texas prison system is “failing to undertake take basic measures to protect [them] from the risk of disease and death” presented by the coronavirus pandemic, prisoners on the state’s death row have filed a class-action motion to join a federal prison-conditions lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The motion and an accompanying class-action complaint, filed May 1, 2020 by the Texas Innocence Network in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…