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22 Feb 2017, 10:32 am
" Mike Ward of The Houston Chronicle reports that "Supreme Court grants Texas death row inmate Duane Buck new hearing. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 3:52 am
Reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:The latest decision came Tuesday when U.S. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman had good coverage of Tuesday's Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing, where I spent my day (on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas) waiting to testify on legislation to require law enforcement agencies to create policies on eyewitness identification procedures and authorize a statewide model policy implementing best practices. [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 1:23 pm
The Honorable Mike Carter is a House Representative in the Tennessee General Assembly. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 9:05 am
Reports Mike Ward:The suit alleges that [TYC executive commissioner Dimitria] Pope changed the policy in violation of a state law that requires public notice of such changes. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 7:56 am
Mike Ward writes, "Brown case highlights reluctance to parole longtime offenders," for today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:39 am
Reports the Statesman's Mike Ward ("Texas youth inmates paid for work," March 31):Adults locked in Texas prisons work for free, helping in the kitchen and doing maintenance around the lockup.But teenagers in most Texas Youth Commission lockups are paid for doing many of the same chores, and Texas taxpayers are picking up the tab.This year alone, several hundred youth lawbreakers are expected to be paid more than $167,000, according to state records.Offenders are… [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 7:23 pm
In response to my first post on joint monopsony conduct to countervail monopoly power, Mike Ward raises the issue of justifying a merger among sellers on the basis that it will countervail alleged monopsony power. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 9:07 am
The American-Statesman's Mike Ward reported last week that the cost of chemicals used to execute condemned inmates has jumped from $83.35 to $1,286.86 each. [read post]
21 May 2012, 9:14 am
"Texas has enough lethal drugs for 23 executions, officials say," is the Austin American-Statesman report by Mike Ward. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports:Making good on an earlier threat, officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston are seeking to stop providing medical care to the state's 154,000 convicts at in-prison clinics it now runs.Prison officials said Thursday the move could trigger a complete restructuring of how Texas provides health care to its prison convicts at a time when mushrooming costs are expected to leave the Galveston school and Texas Tech… [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:26 am
"Texas executions, death sentences continue to decline," is the title of Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 4:00 am
Pour sa part, le défendeur Mike Ward est humoriste. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 11:21 am
Mike Seale joined us on an extensive tour that included all the medical wings, the mental health ward, detention units and the booking center.The day I visited there were 8,820 inmates in the Harris County Jail, which is really four buildings in downtown Houston connected by underground tunnels. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:02 pm
The pilot program would expire after four years, prior to which the Department of State Health Services must issue a report on the results.Notably, the Senate Finance Committee boosted mental health funding by $200 million, reported the Statesman's Mike Ward, restoring cuts from last session. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 12:35 pm
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported ("Texas prison managers got double digit pay raises while rank and file got 5%," Nov. 17) that, in contrast to front-line prison employees who received a five percent pay raise in the new state budget, "Executive pay increases ranging from 8 percent to more than 23 percent were given in September to top leaders in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice." [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 9:04 am
For background, you can read the news story on HuffPo and find the essential facts and Mike Masnick’s commentary on TechDirt. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 7:38 am
"Senate panel votes to keep chairman of Forensic Science Commission," is the Austin American-Statesman report by Chuck Lindell and Mike Ward. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 7:34 am
There's a strange and extraordinarily unrealistic proposal being floated on prison healthcare, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman: "Facing a $130 million cut in funding and no fewer patients, officials who operate the network of medical care for state prisoners say they are considering a plan to expand providers to include five additional public medical schools to help those at the University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas Tech University. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 5:10 am
Criticisms of Texas' Driver Responsibility Surcharge arose at a hearing of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee yesterday on DWI policy, and Mike Ward at the Statesman reports ("Overhaul of DWI laws may be coming," July 9) that "much of the criticism came from police and prosecutors — who in years past have championed many of the programs they now say are not working. [read post]
