Terry Pelz

University of Houston-Downtown

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Adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown; former warden of the Darrington Unit State Prison in Texas

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New York State has offered a $100,000 reward for two murderers who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York near the Canadian border.

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New York State has offered a $100,000 reward for two murderers who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in upstate New York near the Canadian border.

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