Published:
March 17, 2022
"This case should be a wake-up call for officials — not just in Texas but all over the U.S. — to realize that many routine conditions of confinement in our nation's prisons do not measure up to international human rights standards," said Michele Deitch, a University of Texas at Austin senior lecturer who served as an expert witness in the case. "Some of these conditions are really out of step with what are considered acceptable practices in other Western nations."