Opened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Texas’s youth prisons were once known as “reform schools. It was believed at that time that incarcerating delinquent youths in rural areas removed them from bad influences and ensured public safety. However, these isolated facilities quickly became notorious for abuse and brutality.

You wait to see a magistrate for your first bail hearing. When the time comes, the magistrate will pronounce the sum you will have to pay to go free.

Approximately 80,000 people in this country are held in solitary confinement while numerous challenges to solitary confinement in state and federal courts continue.