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14 Mar 2011, 3:54 am by Steve Lombardi
Here are this week’s reports from Rhode Island, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, California, Europe, Canada, New Hampshire, Alabama, Kentucky, Washington State, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, Australia, Nebraska, Delaware, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Scotland, England and Florida. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 1:34 pm by Steve Hall
  An condensed version with Texas reporting is at the Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 9:16 am by Steve Hall
"The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction announced in January that it will substitute pentobarbital for sodium thiopental for the purposes of carrying out lethal injections in Ohio. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 6:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If Texas owned all its own prisons, the cost might well be "insignificant" to feed, clothe, etc., ten extra prisoners per year. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 1:13 pm by David Kravets
Photo: Texas Department of Corrections See Also: Bradley Manning Charged With 22 New Counts, Including Capital Charge Lawyer Fears Assange Could Face Death Penalty in U.S. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Big hearing on Wednesday on the juvenile justice front: The House Corrections Committee will hear Chairman Jerry Madden's HB 1915, "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to the newly created Texas Juvenile Justice Department and to the functions of the independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 8:55 am by Steve Hall
” And: California has 713 inmates awaiting execution, the corrections department said yesterday. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:02 pm by cdw
 In Kentucky & Georgia substantial questions recently arose about how those state’s Department of Corrections acquired their sodium thiopenta stocks. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:01 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Reports the Statesman's Mike Ward:A House bill filed this afternoon would abolish the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and create a new agency to oversee most of the state’s youth corrections programs.House Bill 1915 is the first merger bill filed this legislative session after such a move was recommended earlier by the Sunset Advisory Commission, as a way to streamline and improve juvenile justice in the state.Supporters… [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 6:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
An editorial in the Beaumont Enterprise with the same title as this post IMO makes exactly the right point about the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's finalized cuts for the current fiscal year. [read post]
27 Feb 2011, 3:53 am by Mandelman
  Maggiano made her comments at a recent Mortgage Bankers Association servicing conference held in Texas. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 1:03 pm by Michael O'Hear
Does this trend reflect a durable change in attitudes towards crime and punishment, or is this about short-term fiscal pressures and the need to reduce bloated corrections budgets? [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 12:12 pm by Michael M. O'Hear
 Does this reflect a durable change in attitudes towards crime and punishment, or is this about short-term fiscal pressures and the need to reduce bloated corrections budgets? [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 11:26 am by Michael O'Hear
Porter, The Sentencing Project, The State of Sentencing 2010, at 3 (2011) [hereinafter Porter, 2010]. [6] Alison Lawrence, National Conference of State Legislatures, Cutting Corrections Costs: Earned Time Policies for State Prisoners 4 (2009). [7] National Conference of State Legislatures, State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation in 2010, at http://www.ncsl.org/? [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 2:59 pm
  Food Safety News is considering ways to make it even easier for consumers to report illnesses quickly so foodborne illness outbreaks are stopped and restaurants and manufacturing problems are corrected. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's a new summary (pdf) of a 1.3% budget reduction at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice scheduled to be implemented during the current fiscal year. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 7:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Technical revocations still awfully high after much-vaunted probation reformsGovernor endorses radical cuts to prison agency Corrections budget cuts concentrated in community supervision, set TDCJ up to fail Adios to Texas State Law Library? [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The revised plan, provided to Senate and House leaders yesterday, would lay off an additional 400 administrative workers at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and move up the planned closure of the 1,000-bed Central Unit near Sugar Land to sometime before Aug. 31. [read post]