Learning Objectives
- Identify the role of political culture in the development of Texas’s approach to justice.
- Explain the Texas prison system and how it has responded to overcrowding and poor conditions.
- Relate the rights of the accused and the role of Texas political culture toward the accused.
- Discuss how Texas balances protecting individual rights with its laws and punishments.
- Assess who wins and who loses under a justice system heavily influenced by Texas political culture.