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Texas prisons face staffing and training crisis

The brutal beating of an inmate underscores a staffing and training crisis in Texas prisons where as many as two-thirds of all positions are vacant at some state facilities.

Texas Public Radio’s Paul Flahive reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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