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17 May 2018, 8:37 am
More specifically, the episode discusses a paper by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Vasan Kesavan, which argues that the Texas Legislature has the power to subdivide the state into up to four new states because Congress gave its consent to that action when Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845. [read post]
30 May 2011, 7:39 am
The Houston Chronicle reported recently that "Elderly inmates in Texas make up 8 percent of the state's prison population, yet they account for more than 30 percent of prison hospitalization costs. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:02 am
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29 Jan 2011, 8:30 am
Texas Watchdog says Texas could save $8 million per year by incarcerating fewer prostitutes, joining the overwhelming majority of other states that don't treat the offense as a felony, even after multiple offenses. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 8:34 am
These types of "diligent participation" or "earned time" credits have been used in other states more aggressively but in Texas have atrophied in recent years from disuse. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 8:34 am
These types of "diligent participation" or "earned time" credits have been used in other states more aggressively but in Texas have atrophied in recent years from disuse. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm
In a rushed motion filed on Sunday, the state of Texas took the issue back to the U.S. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 1:45 pm
"Governor Perry is basically asking the Texas Legislature to give him his own version of President Bill Clinton's COPS program, which claimed to put 100,000 new local officers on the street nationwide. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:35 am
And this year, state Sen. [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 11:13 am
Per the Texas legislature, Bhuiyan has the right to "victim-offender mediation coordinated by the victim services division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:44 pm
"For the past year I have had one message for the Texas Legislature- transparency works. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 10:34 pm
Oklahoma Uniform Securities Act of 2004 The Texas Securities Act Michigan Legislature [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 11:09 pm
The Texas Legislature didn't accomplish much in 2009, but one of its few tangible achievements was to pass the "sunset" bill for the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 3:49 pm
The appeals court noted the omission was “significant” because the Legislature addressed similar resources. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 3:04 am
In Texas especially, the Legislature is finding more and more ways to cut benefits to seniors and the poor in order to save money. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 9:31 am
A Texas lawmaker wants to suspend executions in the nation's most active death penalty state and create a commission to study whether the process needs to be fixed.A state House committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill by Rep. [read post]
25 Aug 2018, 9:01 am
The press and politicians around the state are blaming the Texas Department of Public Safety for creating a list of 87 under-utilized rural driver-license centers for possible closure. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 5:01 am
Joining a new group of "cultural-legal historians," the author looks beyond the legal language of Southern legislatures and high courts, and focuses instead on the surviving local and trial records of one case: State v. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 1:52 am
Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation suggests that with the Legislature considering greater regulation in the wake of the abusive conditions alleged at a private youth prison in Coke County, Texas "should not abandon the use of competition in corrections," but use the incident as "a promising opportunity to boldly restructure such outsourcing. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 5:39 am
I'd never expect the Legislature to address the problem of their own accord, but if the courts decide the state must provide relief, poll numbers won't matter much. [read post]
