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14 Sep 2011, 6:35 am
This post originally appeared on the Hacked Off blog and is reproduced with permission and thanks APPENDIX Individuals who have been granted core participants status: Chris Bryant MP Tessa Jowell MP Denis MacShane MP The Rt Hon Lord Prescott of Kingston upon Hull Joan Smith Christopher Shipman Tom Rowland Mark Lewis Mark Thomson Gerry McCann Kate McCann Christopher Jefferies Max Moseley Brian Paddick Paul Gascoigne David Mills Sienna Miller Hugh Grant Ben Jackson Ciara Parkes Simon Hughes MP Max… [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 5:14 am
First, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman, six prison industry factories including a soap factory formerly at the Central Unit in Sugar Land have been closed because of budget cutbacks. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 12:01 pm
When he took her back to her ward, she called the rape crisis line and then police. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 3:28 pm
" Ward adds that "The cost to taxpayers: zero. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 8:54 am
Texas to Begin Deportation of Foreign Convicts: Mike Ward of the American-Statesman (TX) reports under a new Texas law that takes effect Sept. 1, the parole board can approve foreigners convicted of violent and nonviolent crimes for parole on the condition that they are deported to their home country. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 8:53 am
Austin American Statesman by Mike Ward In a move that could save taxpayers millions of dollars, state parole officials Wednesday took the first steps to begin deporting some of the 11,000 foreign citizens who are serving time in Texas prisons. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:"I think several hundred would be a good start, as soon as they can," said state Rep. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Four years ago, state officials heralded the gift of a red brick hospital in a residential neighborhood, unveiling plans to convert the onetime Veterans Affairs center into a prison hospital for women.Today, after funding for the project evaporated, the six-story building remains vacant. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 7:34 am
There's a strange and extraordinarily unrealistic proposal being floated on prison healthcare, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman: "Facing a $130 million cut in funding and no fewer patients, officials who operate the network of medical care for state prisoners say they are considering a plan to expand providers to include five additional public medical schools to help those at the University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas Tech University. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 4:52 am
Attorney Gary Cohen told Ward, "If they had (changed the policy) years ago, as they should have, they would have saved a lot of money and litigation. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 7:27 am
This is basically corruption IMO. 08/16/2011 By Mike Ward After losses in court, state changes how it deals with those not convicted of sex crimes. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm
With the Central Unit in Sugar Land closing, an event driven as much by local development demands as prison policy, Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman indulges in speculation on what other units might find themselves on the chopping block in the future:Nearby, a new high school and homes have popped up near the Jester I Unit. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 6:20 am
The Statesman's Mike Ward has a story on the Texas Legislature's historic decision to close one adult prison in Sugar Land and three youth lockups, the first time the state's has shuttered such facilities:For the first time in its history, Texas is shuttering a prison -- a creaky, 102-year-old lockup southwest of Houston once made famous in the folk song "Midnight Special. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 9:38 am
Mike Bennett was quoted as being amazed by the massive increases but saying that perhaps they were necessary. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 4:50 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has a good story profiling TDCJ Inspector General John Moriarty, who is retiring August 31. [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 4:46 am
They do not, however, argue that the President has the constitutional authority to do so by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment, a possibility that has been the subject of many posts by Jack, Larry Tribe, Neil Buchanan and Mike Dorf, here and on Mike's blog -- and a constitutional argument that the President himself appeared to reject yesterday. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 8:01 am
If they do, it will merely shift costs to local emergency rooms who will then have to deal with much sicker, more expensive patients down the line.In other prison health news, Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that legislators this week beat back a proposal to give the Governor control over decisions whether to privatize the prison healthcare system, after "critics of privatization feared that it would have allowed Perry to push ahead with outsourcing of the nearly $1… [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 1:36 pm
Mike Beebe today set execution dates for condemned killers Jason Ferrell McGehee and Bruce Earl Ward. [read post]
30 May 2011, 7:39 am
(UPDATE/CORRECTION: The bill to revamp inmate copays died unexpectedly on the last day but has been revived in the special session, reports the Statesman's Mike Ward.)As far back as 2005, UTMB officials said the system was near the brink of failing to provide constitutional levels of care: "'We can't go any farther,' said [Dr. [read post]
18 May 2011, 8:12 am
Ford allies Mayor Rob Ford Yes Vincent Crisanti (Ward 1) Yes Doug Ford (Ward 2) Yes Doug Holyday (Ward 3) Yes Gloria Lindsay Luby (Ward 4) Yes Peter Milczyn (Ward 5) Yes Mark Grimes (Ward 6) Yes Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7) Yes James Pasternak (Ward 10) Yes Frances Nunziata (Ward 11) Yes Frank Di Giorgio (Ward 12) Yes Karen Stintz (Ward 16) Yes Cesar Palacio (Ward 17) Yes David Shiner… [read post]
