AltWeeklies Wire
Turning Off the Spigotnew
Texas has changed its tune on turning kids into criminals, but Fort Worth may be lagging behind.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
01-16-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Juvenile Offenders
Poor David Wants Oswald Stone Returnednew
David Card, the irascible owner of Poor David’s Pub in Dallas, is bound and determined to get a family possession returned, and he’s turning to social media for help.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
08-24-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Let the Right Ones Outnew
Fort Worth folks play key roles in the work of freeing the wrongly convicted.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
03-09-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Wrongly Convicted
Dead Zonenew
The Texas-Mexico border has always been violent — but nothing like this.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
01-05-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: U.S.-Mexico Border, Drugs
Steel Bars vs. Lead Bulletsnew
A longtime (undocumented) Texas resident is on the run from both U.S. immigration officials and a Mexican drug cartel.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
04-21-2010 |
Crime & Justice
A New TABC policy is Aimed at Convincing Drunk Teens to Get Helpnew
A new policy from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission gives teens a pass on minor liquor violations if they are reporting a serious crime or getting medical help for themselves or others. The goal of the policy is to bring awareness of the problem of alcohol poisoning.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Susan Costa |
03-19-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Despite a Long Record of Abuses, GEO is Still Running Texas Prisonsnew
GEO has one of the world’s worst track records in inmate care: The horror stories range from rapes to suicides to murders to deaths due to inadequate medical care. The company once hired a convicted sex offender as a guard in a facility for juvenile females.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
03-12-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Taser Deaths Lead to Founding of National Memorial, Regional Coalitionnew
The parents of a young man killed in April by a Taser-wielding Fort Worth police officer are hoping that, finally, something good may have come from his death. North Texas opponents of the controversial weapons have also begun a national memorial, with crosses in a church yard for every one of the 471 people who have died after being tasered.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
02-17-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Drug-War Violence Has the Border Under Siegenew
The current violence is beyond anything anyone has ever seen here before, an epidemic of murder and sadistic violence that's being waged with American weapons and aided by American government dollars, led by forces trained by the American military.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
12-04-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Putting a Face on Texas' Death Row Populationnew
Shooting through the glass of interview cubicles, photographer and investigator John Holbrook has made eloquent portraits of some of the men -- and one of the women on Texas' Death Row.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves and John Holbrook |
05-08-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Steve Steen Hasn't Been the Same Since Being Taserednew
The Fort Worth man says nearly a full minute of jolts from a police Taser have left him permanently -- and perhaps fatally -- damaged.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
04-04-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Taser, crime & justice
Paying the Price for Free Speechnew
Karen Lewis' worst crime, in the eyes of federal jailers, may have been talking to the Weekly.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
12-07-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Law Enforcement Abuses Give a Texas County a Black Eyenew
Johnson County suffers, on average, only one or two murders and maybe 50 robberies a year -- and yet, in just two months, inmates reported to Fort Worth Weekly at least half a dozen instances of abuse and serious neglect by jailers, in some cases life-threatening, and out-of-line conduct by various patrol officers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
09-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Tase-Manianew
The chorus of voices calling for reform of Taser policies is growing -- and so is the list of deaths.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
07-27-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Crack in the Carswell Wallnew
An ongoing travesty of medical malpractice and neglect has been killing and maiming women at the nation's only full-service federal prison hosptial for women for at least a decade.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
02-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
