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7 Oct 2015, 6:41 am
"Counties across Texas increasingly are sending teenage lawbreakers to out-of-state rehabilitation programs instead of state-run lockups that have been plagued by reports of violence," reported Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 4:17 am
Image Credits: All from flickr, Creative Commons license: Maternity Ward by Mike Kline; old Brady Bunch photo by Jonathan Haynes; “Jackson Five” by Daniel R. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 1:54 am
Greenwood Jersey Hines Ward Steelers Jersey The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:Revenue Science A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past She was able to reference things that were not immediately within her vicinity, and could communicate her thoughts and desires effectivelyWith auto manufacturing comes workers and their moneySweet Home: Located in Lavaca County, the town got… [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 6:06 pm
(See coverage from the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward.)The judges who wanted to debate legislative history last go-round shifted gears, for the most part, in light of passage of HB 3724 codifying the court's ruling in this same case from last fall. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 1:45 pm
Patrick Leahy and Mike Lee and Reps. [read post]
21 May 2015, 6:22 am
Both bills face concurrence votes when they get back to the House, which will essentially be that chamber's up or down vote on Whitmire's legislation.In related news, on Tuesday, the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward reported that Whitmire's juvenile regionalization legislation, which would result in at least one TJJD unit closing, was near death's door. [read post]
15 May 2015, 5:31 am
Sylvester Turner's bill overhauling the sex-offender civil commitment program, reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward and Anita Hassan. [read post]
7 May 2015, 12:23 pm
Wes Ward, Nicole Civita, Denise Garner, Mike Rush, Dep'ty Sec. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 6:14 am
The crisis over Texas' dysfunctional sex offender civil commitment program deepened this week, reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward and Anita Hassan (April 25), and, though legislation is in the works to modify the process, "Even if the reforms are approved, the housing crisis will remain. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 11:59 am
Chicago Alderman Brendan Reilly, whose 42nd Ward encompasses Chicago's highly praised Kinzie Street protected bike lane, is taking steps that could lead to the removal of the bike lane. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 9:21 am
By day’s end, Delbert Ward “confessed” to suffocating his ailing brother as an act of mercy, but Munnsville believed Delbert had been framed. [read post]
8 Apr 2015, 10:00 pm
On April 2, 2015, Alabama Republican State Senators Del Marsh and Cam Ward submitted Senate Bill 330, which proposes drastic reforms to The Alabama Workers' Compensation Act. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 6:50 am
That development certainly bolsters the case for Whitmire's bill, which now heads to the full Senate.In other juvenile justice news, the same committee yesterday approved a major reorganization of Texas' juvenile justice system, as reported by Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle:Under Senate Bill 1630, up to 80 percent of juvenile offenders who are now sent to state lockups could instead be held in local treatment programs - a move that could significantly downsize the… [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 4:32 am
"Up to 80 percent of juvenile offenders sent to state lockups could instead be held in regional treatment programs under a bill filed Friday, a move that could significantly downsize the state's long-troubled youth corrections system," reported Mike Ward at the Houston Chronicle over the weekend (March 13), adumbrating the details behind state Sen. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm
When Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed SB 746 revamping Texas' civil commitment program aimed at sexually violent predators, Grits tried in vain to grok the ins and outs of all the changes and their import from the text and quickly found it made my head hurt. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 6:37 am
District of Columbia – For Marion Barry’s Son, Filling Dad’s Shoes Is a Surprisingly Uphill BattleWashington Post – Mike DeBonis | Published: 2/21/2015 Ward 8 voters in the District of Columbia will again get to choose the name Marion Barry on April 28, when the only son of the late, legendary former mayor will try to replace his father on the city council. [read post]
22 Feb 2015, 2:44 pm
"Mike Ward and Anita Hassan from the Houston Chronicle offer initial details on what a revamped and perhaps renamed sex offender civil commitment program might look like under legislation soon to be proposed by state Sen. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 3:57 am
"The new agency head "has ordered the practice of criminally charging the offenders for minor technical violations stopped, and she is reviewing every case before it is referred to prosecutors," reported Mike Ward and Anita Hassan. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 12:02 pm
At the Houston Chronicle, Mike Ward reported (Jan. 7) from the Texas Public Policy Foundation legislative conference this week that, "After years of reforms in Texas' juvenile justice system, officials now appear headed toward the next big step: further downsizing the system of state-run lockups or even junking it altogether. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 10:05 pm
For example, back in 2009 I interviewed Mike Schneider, an attorney who left the practice of law to write iPhone apps. [read post]
