Inmate advocates support standards against sexual assault in prisons

Benning:
The standards, recommended by a national commission more than a year ago, are the result of a decades-long struggle to change prison culture. And Texas – with its state prison population of more than 155,000 – often has been at the center of that effort. National reports and surveys have tagged Texas prisons with among the highest rates of sexual abuse.
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Former state Rep. Terri Hodge reports to federal prison today

Jason Trahan reports:

Former state Rep. Terri Hodge isn't going away quietly.

A day before the veteran North Texas legislator reports to a federal prison in Kentucky to serve a year for tax fraud, she granted a quick – and contentious – interview in which she denied taking bribes and said she was "always honest" in her 14 years in the Texas House.
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