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Protected: Maggie Luna speaks out about the rising death toll in Texas prisons

October 20, 2026

“Advocates outside fear the rising death toll in Texas prisons is a problem TDCJ’s current rehabilitation programs are ill-equipped to handle, stressing the importance of educating people on the dangers of the drugs that are inevitably making their way inside. 

“’We talk to people inside who are scared to help each other for fear of lockdown; the education on what is actually poisoning people is more important than the classes for people who survive’, said Maggie Luna (Leading with Conviction™ 2022), executive director of the Texas Harm Reduction Alliance, a nonprofit that provides direct services to people with addiction.

“People are dying, and it is all preventable.”

Read more from the Texas Observer.

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