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25 Aug 2011, 8:53 am
Austin American Statesman by Mike Ward In a move that could save taxpayers millions of dollars, state parole officials Wednesday took the first steps to begin deporting some of the 11,000 foreign citizens who are serving time in Texas prisons. [read post]
TX parole officers allegedly taxed parolee drug dealers, Evins JCOs arrested for official oppression
2 Jul 2013, 3:49 am
John Whitmire's office "was tipped by an inmate who said he was being shaken down for money and sex "Separately, reported Ward, juvenile correctional officers from the Evins unit in South Texas face allegations of excessive force, official oppression and covering up misconduct:In a separate case, juvenile-justice system director Mike Griffiths [Monday] announced the arrests of three employees at the Evins lockup, including security director Pete Martinez. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 7:01 am
"MORE (6/4): A common theme in stories by Mike Ward on these topics is the false framing of the question to portray the state's options as a) treat juveniles like in adult prisons and punish with solitary confinement, or b) employ no consequences at all and let the inmates do whatever they want. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:59 pm
This is a good sign, via the Statesman's Mike Ward:State prison officials, their initial budget-cutting plans rejected by legislative leaders, have shuffled the deck and come up with a new proposal to cut more administrative jobs and close two prisons earlier than planned as a way to save $50 million. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 10:46 pm
According to the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward:Criminals who were sent to prison â€â [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 5:44 am
I can't tell if it's part of the $34 million already slated to be cut from the Windham School District, but Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that key legislative leaders (Shapiro, Whitmire and Madden) want to eliminate funding for post-secondary education of inmates. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 5:14 am
First, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman, six prison industry factories including a soap factory formerly at the Central Unit in Sugar Land have been closed because of budget cutbacks. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 5:57 am
Over the weekend, the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward authored a story titled, "County, private lockups sit empty, drain money as Texas prisoners dwindle," (March 31), pointing out that 30,000 of the state's 93,000 county jail beds are sitting empty and private prisons built on spec can't find clients. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 5:18 am
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)The Oswegian, SUNY Oswego's student-run daily, has been socked with a defamation suit by a city councilor whom the paper wrongly identified as a registered sex offender and co-owner of a taxi company, the Syracuse Post-Standard (www.syracuse.com) reported.Republican Mike Todd (3rd Ward) sued the paper over an article that appeared last month that mis-identified him and alleged he opposed allowing sex offenders to operate cabs. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 7:24 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported on yet another disturbance at at Texas Juvenile Justice Department Facility, though this time his article focused more on structural issues than calling for the heads of administrators ("Melee at youth lockup underscore stubborn problems at youth agency," Oct. 26). [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 3:13 am
Here's how the story by Mike Ward began in Friday's Austin Statesman:A federal judge on Thursday issued a stern rebuke to state corrections officials for the way they classify some parolees as sex offenders even though the defendants have never been convicted of sex crimes.U.S. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 12:50 pm
According to a new report (pdf) by the Vera Institute, "Texas taxpayers pay an average 23 percent more for state prisons than the state’s annual corrections budget reflects," reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman: "The new report by the Vera Institute of Justice, a New York-based research organization that tracks criminal justice trends, calculates the state’s total costs for its adult corrections and prison programs at $3.3 billion — almost… [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:41 pm
"Lawmakers scold prison officials for security breaches after cell phone controversy," is Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 3:12 pm
I can't tell what, exactly, is the newshook for this story by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman about cell phones smuggled into Texas prisons, but here are the data for smuggled cell phones two years after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice declared a "zero tolerance" policy on contraband: "This year, Texas investigators estimate that more than 800 cell phones have been confiscated from inside state prisons, compared with more than 900 during the same… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 7:04 am
" Mike Ward reports in the Statesman today that:In a push to bolster security and curb contraband in Texas' massive prison system, officials for the first time plan to order random drug tests for a majority of the state's 41,000 corrections employees including all guards and parole officers.Bryan Collier, deputy director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Thursday that the policy to be unveiled next week is designed to raise staffing standards inside… [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 5:20 am
Reports Mike Ward on the Statesman's legislative blog:A House budget subcommittee this morning tentatively agreed to drastically downsize a proposed pay-raise package for Texas' prison guards, and move it from the sure-thing budget to the wish list. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 6:20 am
The Statesman's Mike Ward has a story on the Texas Legislature's historic decision to close one adult prison in Sugar Land and three youth lockups, the first time the state's has shuttered such facilities:For the first time in its history, Texas is shuttering a prison -- a creaky, 102-year-old lockup southwest of Houston once made famous in the folk song "Midnight Special. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 8:08 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward brings word ("Court cases forcing change at parole agency," Aug. 31) of a recent clash between US District Judge Sam Sparks and an attorney from the Board of Pardons and Parole:U.S. [read post]
13 May 2010, 4:27 am
Here's a startling punch in the gut for state budget writers and prison managers, as reported by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison health care could be cut with budget," May 13):An early casualty of impending state budget cuts could be the health care contract that serves most of Texas' 154,000 prison convicts.Top officials at the University of Texas System, whose Galveston medical branch provides the health services, are threatening to cancel the… [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 5:09 am
E.g., TDCJ has cracked down on contraband cases but that doesn't mean more contraband is coming in than before, only that the agency is now making a greater effort to enforce the rules.And as an aside, God bless Mike Ward. [read post]
