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'Six Impossible Things': Do you believe in a conservative, rational, and smaller corrections budget?
28 Jan 2011, 6:26 am
As a local probation director bluntly told the Amarillo Globe-News, "If I lose things, it's going to mean more people going to prison. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:33 am
The following email was sent out last week to TYC staff from executive director Cherie Townsend regarding proposed cuts in the House budget:TYC Staff:This morning the Legislative Budget Board’s (LBB) House Version of recommended baseline appropriations for the 2012-13 biennium, House Bill 1, was released. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 5:48 am
(See the Legislative Budget Board for all the relevant documents.) [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm
For reasons frequently discussed on this blog, it's unwise and unworkable to make such deep cuts in probation without the prison population expanding significantly in the near term.No more TDCJ pay hikes Central administration at TDCJ will take an 11% cut, but the executive director and the chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles will get to keep raises they received in 2010 (2.6% and 10%, respectively). [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 4:32 pm
26....The governor’s crackdown includes:• accepting the resignations of five of the parole board members who voted to release Cinelli, along with the executive director’s resignation. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 1:13 pm
Resignations from Massachusetts Parole Board: Martin Finucane of The Boston Globe reports Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick announced today the resignations of five members of the state's parole board and the agency's executive director. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 10:30 am
Of all the data the Board of Pardons and Paroles should get right in its reporting, how many clemency requests they receive each year seemingly ought to be right up there near the top.UPDATE: Soon after hitting "Publish" on this post, I got back a partial explanation regarding total-request data from the BPP annual report: Clemency Director Maria Ramirez wrote to say that the higher figures represented the number of "board member votes" for… [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 10:32 am
The National Parole Board has granted more than 400,000 pardons since 1970. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 10:27 am
Board of Probation and Parole field services director Gary Tullock says the use of the lie detector tests is supposed to be limited to treatment, not supervision, of offenders on release. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 2:44 pm
Marx wrote this letter (appearing in The Desert Sun (CA)) to the California parole director. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 5:42 am
"The Board of Correction acknowledges that when you put a group of people who have a history of criminal behavior together in one place, it is likely you will have problems. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 1:25 am
District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against the Governor of Michigan, the Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections and the Chair of the Michigan Parole Board. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 9:47 am
Board Chairman Duane Belcher, an 18-year veteran, said Landrigan's case was not among the worst of the worst, and that the board indeed had considered parole for some prisoners whose crimes were worse. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 11:34 am
District Judge Ewing Werlein to a total of 180 months in prison without parole. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 4:05 pm
Grisham sits on the Innocence Project Board of Directors. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 5:14 am
"If they've been determined to be a high-risk offender, then they are being reviewed for a GPS bracelet," said Bryan Collier, deputy director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and a former state parole director. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:57 am
"[In] these two cases that I reported, the kids were not getting a fair trial at the parole revocation hearings," Koustoubardis said.This isn't the first employee who courts have found to have been illegally terminated in the wake of TYC's widely publicized sex-abuse scandal, though the firing came prior the current executive director, Cherie Townsend, coming on board. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 5:50 am
But in Texas, if the parole board forces an inmate to stay their full term, when they leave there is no supervision at all, which is what happens with more than half of offenders released each year. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 3:50 am
” Still, he insisted he wouldn’t resign — either as District Attorney or chairman of the victim’s board — and claimed that the Office of Lawyer Regulation had cleared him, a statement the director of the Office said he was prohibited from confirming or denying because of confidentiality rules. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:03 am
They wrote: "It appears that you are not interested in looking at the 'big picture' component of this complaint: Did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct if it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science may have been used to convict hundreds or thousands of defendants? [read post]
