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Jonathan Gamez’s family was waiting outside the Columbia River Correctional Institution in February when he walked out the prison gates as a free man. He had just served a little over a year on a ...

A Lubbock district judge told a 35-year-old man with a history of threatening people with a machete that a 50-year prison sentence was the only way to protect the community from him.