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By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas
Frederick D. Harris, a homeless man with schizophrenia, has been confined in a jail cell for over four months, waiting for a state hospital bed to open up.
From New Mexico to Connecticut, Florida to California, law-abiding Americans are the targets of the government's illegal surveillance.
Grayson County Sheriff Keith Gary cut to the chase this week in saying he believes the county should get ready to build a new jail.
AUSTIN - Even though Gov.
BY ELIZABETH PIERSON The Brownsville Herald
March 19, 2006 - AUSTIN - The last of six boys sitting comfortably, if nervously, with his back against the painted cement hallway wall is round-faced and big-eyed on this first morning away from his South Texas home.
BY ELIZABETH PIERSON The Brownsville Herald
March 19, 2006 - EDINBURG - Leadership is new, and abuses have dwindled, but Edinburg's juvenile prison is still recovering from a rash of beatings and altercations with juvenile prisoners in late 2004.