Round the blogs: Judge and jail edition

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Here are links to a number of recent items from Texas Prison Bidness which deserve Grits readers' attention:

• Jury awards $2.25 million to family of man who died at LCS' Brooks County Detention Center
• Study: As Liberty County reduces jail population, ending privatization saves money (see a related, recent Grits post)
• Sexual abuse allegations at CEC's Liberty County Jail
• Deaths at Dawson State Jail investigated by Dallas news station
• Sixth escape at halfway house operated by the GEO Group
• GEO Group employees at Laredo Detention Center plead guilty to gun running

See also from Paul Kennedy, "Just another death at the Harris County Jail."

See Mark Bennett and Murray Newman dissecting Harris County judicial election outcomes.