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19 Aug 2016, 10:57 am
The Court of Criminal Appeals would create rules to implement these processes.Related: From the Houston Chronicle, "Bail system is unjust and undermines public safety. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 5:02 am
The magistrates were sanctioned anyway, and sources in this must-read Houston Chronicle story by Gabrielle Banks suggested that the Commission is likely now investigating the judges who gave those orders, which is basically all of them.During the case before Judge Rosenthal, the county claimed they could come up with no evidence that judges directed magistrates. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 9:09 am
Politicians and the Texas media were responding to national stories about opiod-related overdoses and the rise of fentanyl as a recreational drug based mostly on problems in Northeastern and Midwestern states that didn't exactly apply to Texas.Now, Todd Ackerman at the Houston Chronicle has produced the first MSM coverage I've seen acknowledging that fact. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 8:49 am
The Houston Chronicle's story on the ruling states that the HCDA Office's position on the ruling is that it's wrong, wrong, wrong, and that they will appeal. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 6:40 am
” — Houston Chronicle Free legal clinic for veterans in Katy — A free legal advice clinic is available for veterans in Katy on Saturday, September 23, at the Katy VA Outpatient Clinic. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 6:40 am
” — Houston Chronicle Free legal clinic for veterans in Katy — A free legal advice clinic is available for veterans in Katy on Saturday, September 23, at the Katy VA Outpatient Clinic. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 8:29 am
LaQuatta Felder of Houston works at the Darrington Penitentiary in Rosharon, Texas, and was traveling with a former Darrington prisoner, Joseph Harris. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 10:31 am
That's the title of Jordan Smith's latest Austin Chronicle report. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 8:34 am
This week's Austin Chronicle, out today, carries, "A.G. [read post]
5 Nov 2016, 7:33 am
"The kicker, though: Eighty percent of jail inmates are being detained pretrial and have yet to be convicted, according to the Houston Chronicle, meaning these variances and the purported jail crowding crisis spurring them are entirely a self-inflicted wound. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 2:30 pm
The Houston Chronicle published a nice story on the scathing Sunset report on the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the agency that licenses and regulates Texas police officers, jailers, and 911 operators. [read post]
26 May 2015, 4:44 am
The Houston Chronicle's Mike Ware summed things up thusly:So, with just a week left in the legislative session, the House has passed its version of a Senate bill that does not include the diversity rule. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 1:18 pm
The Montgomery County Commissioners Court's on-again off-again love affair with private corrections just took an odd turn.Now, after recently selling a facility next door to their own jail to the GEO Group because they couldn't maintain the terms of the phony "nonprofit" created to facilitate the deal, word comes down the county supposedly must build a new jail or spend nearly as much (around $200 million) to renovate the old one, reported the Houston Chronicle… [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 7:20 am
Check out a pair of op eds in the Houston Chronicle published today about solitary confinement from a former Texas Department of Justice general counsel Steve Martin and exoneree Anthony Graves, who spent nearly two decades on death row in "administrative segregation," as Texas euphemistically calls it:Martin: Long-term segregation fails to solve mental illness issueGraves: Solitary confinement brings no benefit to prison inmatesMartin made, essentially, a cost-benefit argument:… [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 4:33 am
A Houston Chronicle profile declared that Abbott "[s]upports doubling state spending for the Texas Department of Public Safety to add manpower, technology and tools for added surveillance at the Texas-Mexico border" as well as "funding for additional surge-enforcement operations along the border. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 11:37 am
Harris County officials want to charge defendants for the cost of blood tests used to gather evidence against them in DWI cases, reported Kiah Collier at the Houston Chronicle (Jan. 13). [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 3:25 am
Among the settlement terms leaked to the press in the Sandra Bland case this week was a statement that the Texas Department of Public Safety would provide de-escalation training for current and future troopers.The Houston Chronicle reported that Waller County agreed to the terms, including shelling out $1.8 million, on Wednesday. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 5:45 am
A recent Houston Chronicle article behind their new paywall had the story of a judge who allegedly favored the prosecution so adamantly that she apparently couldn't help but give out friendly advice to help along a weak case. [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 6:30 am
Lise Olsen at the Houston Chronicle had a story yesterday titled, "Study: Inmates who can't afford bond face tougher sentences" which details the findings in this new study published Aug. 30. [read post]
28 May 2014, 6:57 am
Via the Houston Chronicle ("State bar reprimands former prosecutor in texting scandal," May 27):The Texas Bar Association has issued a public reprimand to state district Judge Kaycee Jones for her role in clandestine texting during a criminal trial while she was a prosecutor and before her election to the bench last year. [read post]
