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30 Jan 2017, 6:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
LBJ School lecturer Michele Deitch emailed to say the total is actually seven. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Michele Deitch is right, they need their own oversight agency. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:29 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In the current environment, the juice simply isn't worth the squeeze.For additional recommendations, Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School has created a list of best practices every jail should be following.In some ways, these debates could end up changing the entire paradigm surrounding decarceration debates. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 7:10 pm
While disappointed, Pittman's attorney Michelle Deitch speculated the justices may "have recognized the growing national trend against sentencing young children to harsh mandatory terms in prison, and wants to give state legislatures the opportunity to correct this problem before it rules again on the issue. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 4:06 am
Rogue of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Andria Shively ofthe Inside Books Project and Michele Deitch, adjunct professor at the LyndonB. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 7:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Most youth in TJJD aren't going to be in prison for years like those Ward describes at Clemens: They're moving back (maybe into your neighborhood) much sooner than later.Last year, Michele Deitch at UT"s LBJ School closely examined the issue of Texas youth housed in adult prisons in a report titled "Juveniles in the adult criminal justice system in Texas," (pdf). [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 6:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I encouraged them to talk to people who deal with TCJS more regularly: in particular Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School, who is an actual issue-area expert on correctional oversight, and Diana Claitor at the Texas Jail Project, whose group helps jail inmates file grievances. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 5:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The panelists were: * The Honorable Jerry Madden — Vice Chairman, Texas House Corrections Committee * Michele Deitch — Adjunct Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs * Harvey Hetzel — Chief Juvenile Probation Officer, Harris County * Vicki Spriggs — Executive Director, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 8:10 am by John Floyd
    Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin, attributed the spate of 2021 suicides in Texas to pandemic stress:   “For the rest of the world, the pandemic has been stressful,” she told the Marshall Project, “and I think people in custody have had that but on steroids. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 7:59 am by Steve Hall
“People aren’t dying of old age in jails,” said Michele Deitch, a jail conditions expert and professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 3:21 am by SHG
Civil commitment is “the perfect market” for private detention companies, according to Michele Deitch, a criminal justice expert at the University of Texas’ LBJ School. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 7:45 pm by The Injustice Must End (TIME) Committee
"Children simply aren't as culpable as adults because their brains aren't fully developed yet, and they are much more capable of rehabilitation," said Michele Deitch, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas and principal investigator of the study.The number of teens sentenced to life in Michigan could climb following a recent rash of crimes in Metro Detroit that police say were committed by teens. [read post]
6 May 2010, 7:46 am by SOIssues
“It’s a real bind for the states,” said Michele Deitch, an attorney who teaches criminal justice policy at the University of Texas. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:38 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said that even though the facility was “unfixable,” separating women from their families can be problematic. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 1:32 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas House Corrections Committee will meet Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss an array of interim charges, so lets preview each of them ahead of time. [read post]