From the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and AP/Houston Chronicle:

An attorney who is suing Texas over an alleged “fight club” in a state institution says he is investigating reports that organized fights between residents may have been going on for years, and may also have been staged at other institutions.

Bob Hilliard is representing four families who say their relatives were forced to fight for the entertainment of state employees.

Hilliard said he believes the local fights were not isolated incidents and that similarly staged bouts may have been going at other state schools much longer. … He said a woman who worked for the state school in Austin in 1979 said she knew of similar fights, wagers on fights by supervisors and busing in of the Corpus Christi winner for a fight against the Austin winner. Hilliard on Thursday wouldn’t identify the woman who he said now is an attorney. He said she contacted his firm after seeing a national news report the Corpus Christi State School.

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