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27 Apr 2017, 9:40 am
Bounty hunters are almost never used.And even when the insurance companies are ordered to pay, only a percentage of those bond revocation judgments are actually paid, as shown in investigations by the Houston Chronicle ($26 million owed in 2010) and Dallas Morning News ($35 million owed in 2011). [read post]
1 Sep 2022, 1:46 pm
She moves to Texas for a job with the Houston Chronicle where she breaks the story that the Texas prison system won't provide dentures for inmates with no teeth. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 6:06 pm
(See coverage from the Houston Chronicle's Mike Ward.)The judges who wanted to debate legislative history last go-round shifted gears, for the most part, in light of passage of HB 3724 codifying the court's ruling in this same case from last fall. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 10:51 am
Here are a few items which didn't make it into individual posts this week but merit Grits readers' attention:TDCJ has confiscated 1,400 weapons in 2014The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confiscated 1,400 weapons from inmates so far in 2014, reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 12:17 pm
Here is a photo of the Certificate; judge for yourself:Here is a news article on the mess in the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 12:01 pm
A column in the Houston Chronicle today titled "Harris County should stop jailing small-time drug offenders" isn't wrong that drug-addicted offenders, along with the mentally ill and those with "dual diagnosis," in the bureaucratic lingo (both drug addicted and mentally ill), soak up a huge proportion of local criminal justice resources when at root what's needed to reduce addiction and low-level criminality is more akin to social work than traditional… [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 8:46 am
Lisa Falkenberg at the Houston Chronicle authored a fine article on the subject.Not fakingA Milam County Jail inmate - a probationer awaiting access to drug treatment services - has filed suit after receiving a beating from guards that left him paralyzed from the waste down. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 2:27 pm
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere:Harris County to provide counsel to indigent at bail hearingsBig news: Harris County will soon launch a pilot program to place public defenders at bail hearings to represent indigent defendants, reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 12:02 pm
In Harris County, reported the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger, Judge Andrew Wright issued a monetary sanction of $500 on the Harris County DA's office for failing to hand over evidence to the defense under Brady v. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 6:34 am
So, the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger might see the Texas Department of Criminal Justice act on concerns in her articles when the same problems raised by Jennifer Erschabek of the Texas Inmate Family Association were more easily ignored.Grits sees this a lot. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 10:04 am
The Houston Chronicle reported on the habit of the Montgomery County DA to seek life sentences for repeat DWI offenders.The Sheriff and the spooksCrazy story out of Hudspeth County about Sheriff Arvin West. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 2:25 am
because of his Chronicle comment? [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 9:51 am
Here's the ruling (pdf) and initial coverage from the Dallas News, Houston Chronicle, Austin Chronicle, and Texas Watchdog.After Judge Keller falsely pled poverty trying to get the state to pay for her lawyer last year when the Judicial Conduct Commission brought removal proceedings against her, she shoulda seen this coming. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 4:18 am
., according to documents the Houston Chronicle obtained in response to a public records request. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 1:53 pm
: The Houston Chronicle reports a Taco Bell customer in San Antonio faces three counts of attempted capital murder after he shot an air gun at the restaurant manager, displayed a semiautomatic assault rifle, and exchanged gun fire with three police officers. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 3:23 am
Along those same lines, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Stan Kroichick recently wrote this fine series of articles (see also here, here and here) on the 1981 San Francisco 49er's, the first of that franchise's four Super Bowl championships of the 1980's (the 1994 team won another one) in which he chronicles the physical problems that the players on the 1981 team have endured over the 26 years since that magic season (and here's another one examining the health… [read post]
1 May 2010, 7:29 am
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) has rebounded from hers and is focusing on NASA, the Houston Chronicle noted today. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 8:29 am
The Houston Chronicle has, "Rivals hope to avoid 'ugly' speaker's race. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 4:06 am
” Benjamin Wermund of the Houston Chronicle (subscription required) and the Chronicle of Higher Education both discuss the amicus brief that the Cato Institute filed recently in Fisher v. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 5:39 pm
Federal deficiencies are so severe that public safety is being compromised, as a Houston Chronicle report showed this week. [read post]
