Yet another Republican policy failure: Texas jails

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So the Republicans have controlled the state for about 2 decades, and could, should they so have wished, addressed just about anything.

We got a bathroom bill. Yay.

and we got a bunch more dead poor women

being non-white and poor and pregnant in racist REPUG / Christian TX


Maternal deaths are increasing in Texas, but probably not as much as officials thought

That increase and

“the large and persistent

racial and ethnic disparities,

warrant concerted actions by clinicians and

policy makers,”

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01...ficials-thoug/

Repug / Christian Taliban / pro-birther so-called "policy makers" have forced the closure of many TX women's clinics,

greatly reducing poor women's access to perinatal care, contraception, STD / AIDS / cancer testing,

because Jesus hates non-white women.

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Proportion of traffic stops at which Texas DPS troopers used force against a driver in 2018: 17.02 per 10,000 stops.*

Proportion of traffic stops at which Austin police officers use force against a driver: 77.2 per 10,000 stops.*

Number of Texans in 2018 who sat out their Class C fines and fees in jail because they couldn't afford to pay: 524,628.**

Number of Texans for whom judges waived Class-C fines for indigency in 2018: 54,794.**

Percentage of Texans who, according to an Office of Court Administration poll, disapprove of jailing people over fines and fees when defendants could not afford to pay: 66%.

Percentage of Texans who believe "the wealthy enjoy substantially better outcomes in the criminal justice than poor and working-class people": 81%.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2019/03/class-c-misdemeanor-arrests-and.html