In September the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Announced a lock down and all prison wide search through inmates belongings to find drugs. They stopped all incoming mail including Inside Books Project (IBP) books. Surprise TDCJ found:
“13 Investigates found more than 100 prison employees fired this year”
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 (abc13.com)
“HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KTRK) — After the state locked down prisons earlier this year to search for contraband, 13 Investigates is learning more about how often staff have been fired for bringing illegal substances into the facilities.”
TDCJ has now decided that IBP will be allowed back in to Tx Prisons. Please share your books with these Texas Inmate Neighbors by donating them to the IBP donation box in the church entry way.
Another Book project Scott Butki has started is Political Justice Books for neighborhood free mini libraries. There is a box next to the IBP box where you can donate these.
Another winning effort:
Green Sanctuary Ministry Members have been working in a Public Private coalition to stop the scam to bring High Level Nuclear waste from all US Nuclear Power Plants to Andrews County in West Tx and “store” the hot waste on an “interim basis” until a National deep underground depository is created. The fallacious potentially deadly scheme has recently been stopped by the 5th Circuit Court.
5th Circuit Opinion: Texas nuclear waste storage permit invalidated by US appeals court
Tx Public Citizen, SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, Green Sanctuary Ministry, and others stopped this potentially catastrophic opportunist plan, for now. The schemers will appeal. Check in with Tx Public Citizen or Green Sanctuary if you want to help.
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