Archive for: human rights

Free Omid

By Rose Cahalan

Five years ago, a UT student was imprisoned in Iran. He’s still there. In a photo taken in the fall of 2010, Omid Kokabee stands on a bridge over Austin’s...

UT Law Report Says Texas Prisons Are Dangerously Hot

By Victoria Rossi

In the summer, Texas jailhouses get hot—so hot that 14 inmates have died from the heat in Texas prisons since 2007. A new UT study says these sweltering conditions...