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10 Feb 2013, 8:20 am
Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire wants to end contracts for at least two private prison units and wants the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to find internal savings to cover its extra costs, reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Senators to state corrections officials: Tighten your belts," Feb. 7), covering TDCJ's presentation to the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 8:15 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported Friday evening ("Over a year after closure, state prison still runs some operations," Jan. 18) that, despite de-funding in the last budget, TDCJ's Central Unit in Sugar Land is not yet fully closed, though the prisoners there were moved to other units. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 12:55 pm
Texas’s Big-Business Lobby to Push for Criminal Justice Reform Mike Ward of the Austin American-Statesman reports that Texas’ most powerful business group, the Texas Association of Business, has decided to prioritize criminal-justice reforms in the upcoming session. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 12:20 pm
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward points to a major development on the criminal justice reform front: The entry of the Texas Association of Business, a powerful lobby representing some of the state's largest employers, will be backing a reform agenda on criminal justice this session. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 11:22 am
In the wards, people lay starving, thirsty and in soiled bedclothes, buzzers droning hopelessly as their cries for help went ignored. [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 7:48 am
State jails have deviated far from their original purposes, reported Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman ("State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs," Dec. 30), to the point that most people in them aren't actually state jail felons: As of the end of October, "just 11,802 were serving time for state jail offenses. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 8:10 am
The American-Statesman's Mike Ward reported last summer that incarceration in a state prison for a year costs $18,538, or $15,500 in a lower-security state jail, but enrolling the prostitute in a community-based program for a year costs $4,300. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 9:37 am
Let me point out a few items that failed to make it into individual Grits posts but still merit readers' attention:Prison homicides rise, rural units short-staffedAt the Austin Statesman Mike Ward reports that in-prison homicides at TDCJ spiked this year to 11, up from an average of just more than three per year for the past decade. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 1:07 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman had coverage of the joint Senate Criminal Justice/Education Committee meeting on school discipline ("Senators delve into school discipline, find unfair practices," Oct. 30), which included this notable tidbit:In a daylong hearing, members of the Senate criminal justice and education committees listened to testimony from more than two dozen witnesses who said that discipline is being too harshly applied in some school districts, that it… [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]
25 Oct 2012, 2:37 pm
After lunch, Judge Ward moderated a panel with Michael Gibson, George Pappas and Robert Van Nest on closing argument. [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 9:32 am
That's the title of Mike Ward's excellent recap of execution protocols in Texas and other death penalty states in today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 6:56 am
In reaction to controversial raises for administrators at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman: "'We need to put in a criminal penalty for violating the Appropriations Act and not following the intent of the Legislature,' said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who is also a member of the budget-writing Senate Finance Committee. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 4:15 am
The new head of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), Mike Griffiths, plans to shake up agency management, the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported today, reducing the number of top supervisory staff by as much as 20%, and has handed out writing assignments to agency leaders asking how they hope to fit in with thenew management stucture and soliciting suggestions for improving the agency. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:00 pm
TX Prisons Will Block Smuggled Cell Phones: Mike Ward of Statesman News reports TX will begin blocking calls from smuggled cell phones at two prisons later this year. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 4:15 pm
" Chuck Lindell and Mike Ward of The Austin American-Statesman have a blog post titled "Federal court rejects Texas voter ID law. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 5:31 am
"Few other states imprison prostitutes as does Texas, which has a long history of locking higher percentages of its lawbreakers in state prisons than all but a few other states," reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman last week. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 2:02 am
“We give them opportunities to screw up,” says Camp Superintendent Mike Roots. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reported on Friday that, despite agencies being asked to submit a legislative appropriations request (LAR) 10% lower than their current budget, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is asking for $300 million more than its current budget, mostly for increased pay for front-line prison staff, particularly COs. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
On August 11, Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman published a piece titled "Texas prison population shrinks as rehabilitation programs take root. [read post]
