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27 Apr 2007, 2:47 am
Chairman Whitmire has called this a "spec prison," built without a specific client, but from all appearances it will be used as part of the proposed expansion of treatment and incarceration alternatives he and Jerry Madden put together. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 3:50 am
With Corrections Chair Jerry Madden and several other reform-minded legislators headed out the door, I don't know who might emerge as a champion on that score. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
We're with House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, who noted, "We don't provide free college tuition for anyone else like this, so with the budget crisis we're facing, why should we for convicted felons? [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:29 am
" Chairman Jerry Madden laid out the legislation in Rep. [read post]
LBB: Texas' prison population will dip next year for the first time in decades before rising further
13 Sep 2008, 11:37 am
(Thanks Jerry Madden and John Whitmire!) [read post]
23 May 2010, 2:15 pm
“There are some in the prison system who are costing you a lot of money who are probably no longer a threat and no longer someone you’d be afraid of,” said Jerry Madden, a Republican Texas legislator who headed the state’s corrections committee. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 8:10 am
(Thanks to former House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden for making sure it got into the platform on the GOP side.)* * *Those are the major areas where #cjreform platform planks for Texas' two major political parties include overlap. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 12:21 am
Jerry Madden says proposals for smaller facilities don't have political support and also backed TYC's pepper spray policy.One wonders why they convened the Blue Ribbon Panel and put off so many initiatives waiting for its input if they weren't going to take its recommendations? [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 2:18 pm
Jerry Madden, R-Plano, would have charged prisoners $100 per year for medical care unless they were poor.Currently, state prisoners pay $3 per doctor’s visit.In fact, though that bill died, the measure passed attached to another bill and has been implemented. [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 2:18 am
I don't understand why her SB 78 is being heard - it's the companion bill to Jerry Madden's House legislation about continuous sexual abuse of a child that was amended onto Jessica's Law (HB 8) on the House floor. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 3:29 am
Jerry Madden, the Richardson Republican who serves as the House's criminal justice guru, said that although it would be ideal to re-evaluate all of the state's 45,000 sex offenders, the task is nearly impossible. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 2:04 am
Sponsored by Republican House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden, HB 2391 gave law enforcement officers the discretion to give certain low-level nonviolent misdemeanor offenders a citation and summons rather than take them all downtown for booking into the jail. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 7:34 am
One notices that confidence wasn't attributed to anybody willing to put their name on such a ridiculous statement.At the end of the story, House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden said, "While we think there are efficiencies that may be realized in the current system, we don't think they should reduce services below what is required. ... [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 5:28 am
Here's the Statesman's coverage of the press conference, and the Houston Chronicle believed Pope's comments about critics were aimed at House Corrections Chair Jerry Madden. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 8:45 am
Jerry Madden has been to rapidly de-incarcerate youth prisons and shift focus to grant-funded community-based programs administered locally. [read post]
14 May 2007, 5:02 am
These bills have passed the Senate and are pending in the House.We are privileged that House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden, the House sponsor of these two bills as well as significant other criminal justice reform legislation, and Senator Rodney Ellis, the lead sponsor of SB1909, attended the briefing along with legislative staff and other stakeholders.Austin American-Statesman reporter Mike Ward, who has published numerous informative stories on adult and juvenile criminal… [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 8:02 am
Offenders leaving custody, especially short-term prisoners, need support to get resettled and find work.Levin picks up on the Conservative Party's incentives idea to argue for expanding incentive-based private prison contracts, but he also likens the approach to the probation policies promoted over the last couple of sessions by House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden and Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire: Using incentives to encourage policy… [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am
The ouster of House Corrections Chair Jim McReynolds was a loss for reform-minded folk, but most people think he'll be replaced by Jerry Madden, who is author of numerous recent, widely praised probation and parole reforms. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:26 am
(As an aside, I've now heard about half a dozen different Sheriff's Departments and nonprofit groups claim credit for coming up with this idea - I first heard the idea from the jail administrator in Midland, Dennis McKnight who's running for Sheriff in San Antonio has long backed a similar proposal, and bill sponsor Jerry Madden told me it was former state Rep. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:22 pm
Jerry Madden pointed out that in some cases different federal funding sources required separate accounting. [read post]
