The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System

How Frances Jalet, one of the first women to graduate from Columbia Law School, and Fred Cruz, the first inmate to write a lawsuit on toilet paper that went all the way to the Supreme Court, teamed up to take on the Texas Department of Corrections for unconstitutional punishments and brutality.

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Oct 11, 2018
Length: 66 minutes (16,500 words)
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