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12 Jun 2007, 9:26 am
The prison building crowd pulled a rabbit out of their hat at the end of the 80th Texas Legislature and convinced budget conferees to approve funding for three new prisons along with money for Chairmans Whitmire and Madden's diversion programs. [read post]
26 May 2007, 1:23 am
Such things as the effectiveness of diversion programs, paroles rates and other factors, plus review and approval by the Legislative Budget Board, would have to have been considered. [read post]
14 May 2007, 5:02 am
Said Marc:At a Capitol briefing last week, we utilized a model of the criminal justice system we've created as well as projections by the Legislative Budget Board to demonstrate that pending legislation and budget provisions would divert sufficient numbers of offenders to eliminate any need for new prison construction. [read post]
8 May 2007, 2:47 am
We need to see a lot more of that kind of initiative from the Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
7 May 2007, 10:52 am
The House plan, he says, would need a little help from the parole board to avoid a prison bed shortage. [read post]
5 May 2007, 7:57 am
SB 838, up in the same hearing, was discussed here - that bill would expand Texas' Intermediate Sanctions Facilities for petty parole violators instead of revoking them to prison for their full term. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 12:34 am
It requires the TDCJ board to establish a "Professional Standards and Labor Oversight Committee," and mandates specific reforms to the employee grievance process that would ensure timely action and a process for appeal and forbid retaliation against those who complain.Her name is RIO and she dances on the sandRep. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 5:36 am
If not, other options, including various legislative models or possibly constitutional change, to be examined and considered.A separate dissent on this topic from the Chairman is attached to the Report.4. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
Whitmire explained that treatment proposals were designed to facilitate higher parole rates because the parole board refuses to release many nonviolent DWI and drug offenders without treatment. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 1:26 am
But Obama's opponents have well-connected lawyers on board, too. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 7:30 am
Even if Chairmans Madden and Whitmire successfully strengthen the probation system and rein in the out of control parole board, Texas' prison population will continue to burst at the seams if the Lege keeps indulging in its biennial ritual of boosting criminal penalties.Today the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee will hear a handful of good bills along with a number of additional penalty enhancements and nickel and dime punitive restrictions on offenders. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 9:42 am
Connecticut is different from Arkansas, said Benny Magness, chairman of the Arkansas Board of Corrections. 'A lot of our growth can be attributed to meth,' he said. 'Some of the New England states haven't seen meth like we have.'" Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
Last year TDCJ recommended that 451 offenders be released because their poor health generated high healthcare costs, but the Board of Pardons and Parole only approved 164 of them. [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 3:29 pm
Parole can be granted to these offenders only upon approval by at least five of the seven members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.Even so, Reps. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 7:34 am
• Fix the Board of Pardons and Paroles. ... [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 5:24 am
The Parole Board is CAUSING Texas' overincarceration problem. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 7:04 am
" This report outlined two justice reinvestment scenarios: provide more tools to the Parole Board to enhance the use of parole and increase the availability of treatment services. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 12:42 pm
Chairman Whitmire asked why trusties aren't more frequently considered good candidates for parole? [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 11:54 am
Modifies the ex officio membership of the Board by removing the chairman of the Virginia Parole Board and adding the assistant superintendent for Special Education and Student Services [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 7:17 am
And thousands of parole-eligible non-violent offenders sit in prison after being refused parole in defiance of the parole board's own guidelines. [read post]
