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Uvalde Trial Raises Question of Whether Police Stop School Shootings

Please tag the Texas Observer in social media posts promoting the republished story. Three drones whirred loudly in a gray metal box in the corner, the fans kicking up enough wind to rustle notebooks.
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In Texas State Jails, a Rising Death Toll and a Broken Promise

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ...
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‘Black Bird Redemption Song’: A Fort Worth Artist’s Work on Confinement, Freedom, and Fred Rouse

Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and longtime professor at UT-Arlington, made his name creating massive, mural-sized paintings ...
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Congressman Tries to Cut Pay of ICE Prosecutor with Racist X Account to $1

Last week, the prosecutor James Rodden returned to Dallas immigration court a year after the Observer's original investigation into his social media. Congressman Marc Veasey’s amendment did not ...
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state jails

Once billed as rehabilitative alternatives to prisons, these facilities are the sites of fatal overdoses—like that which ended the life of a Texan named Jackie Wiley.
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Fred Rouse

An exhibition at the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum in Austin runs through January 25.