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15 Apr 2009, 3:31 am
A reader corrects my blog entry Estate Planning Fraud Alert. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 12:03 am
Continued operation of the West Texas State School in Pyote, and the Victory Field Correctional Academy in Vernon. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 1:31 am
Thursday's Sunset hearing on House Corrections firmly established that a full-blown Texas Youth Commission - Juvenile Probation Commission merger is off the table, but the new Sunset draft does not keep TYC and TJPC completely independent either. [read post]
1 Apr 2009, 8:44 am
EDT: Texas man found with 21 cats in hotel room. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 4:47 am
Anyone with a stake in reforms at TYC and TJPC should definitely read this document, which I'm told is indicative of the general direction legislators would like to go, though not a written-in-stone blueprint.RELATED: Looks like the TYC/TJPC Sunset bill is up next week in House Corrections; it's HB 3689 "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to… [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 11:23 am
Among the cases on the hand-down list from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today is an opinion in the case of Mark de la Paz vs. the State of Texas - litigation growing out of the infamous Dallas "fake drug" case where an informant helped crooked Dallas narcotics officers set up 24 people The opinion, written by Judge Cathy Cochran, opens:Appellant, a former Dallas Police Department Narcotics detective, was convicted of (1) tampering with physical evidence… [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 6:16 am
That reportedly is to include a pay raise for TYC correctional officers. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 12:30 am
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has very few reentry programs, but one of its more successful ones is under fire at Thursday's House Corrections Committee meeting in the form of HB 1914 by committee chairman Jim McReynolds (with a companion bill in the Senate filed by Sen. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 1:35 pm
; and 2) Is the Attorney General correct in construing section 2907.31(D) to exempt from liability material posted on generally accessible websites and in public chat rooms?.. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 6:00 am
South Carolina Department of Corrections, 2009 U.S. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
This is significant to mention since a third offender would be facing up to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections instead of one year in a county jail for a second DWI offense. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 4:44 pm
This is significant to mention since a third offender would be facing up to ten years in the Texas Department of Corrections instead of one year in a county jail for a second DWI offense. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 12:05 am
Light blogging from me today, but there are several bills up in the House Corrections Committee today aimed at giving the Department of Criminal Justice more tools to manage its inmate population and facilitating reentry to reduce recidivism among ex-prisoners:HB 93 (Terri Hodge) Relating to the restoration of good conduct time forfeited during a term of imprisonment.HB 94 (Terri Hodge) Relating to the application of laws awarding credit to an inmate for time between release on and… [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 9:26 am
His new book departs, at least superficially, from the pattern. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 7:37 am
The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services ruled not to take any action against a facility that almost killed him. [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 4:26 am
The 8.3 percent increase brings the department's budget to $99.2 million, less than one- eighteenth of Department of Corrections spending. [read post]
8 Mar 2009, 9:55 pm
Strangelove: still cause for worry : Propagating bad information is worse than plagiarizing truthful information.Adam Jaffe checking out turnitin, but will he correct Innovation and Its Discontents? [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 4:11 am
None of this is final, it was emphasized, but Griffith's suggestions are an example of the types of ideas being discussed behind the scenes.Whitmire's office also forwarded me a proposal from 22 Southeast Texas probation departments estimating they could eliminate more than half their usual TYC commitments if the state gave them just 73% of the current TYC cost-per-inmate.If these data are any indication, perhaps I've overestimated how much it would cost counties to… [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 6:07 pm
Susan Faludi defended it in a Newsweek story on sexual correctness.[13] Naomi Wolf refers to it in The Beauty Myth, calculating that acquaintance rape is "more common than lefthandedness, alcoholism, and heart attacks. [read post]
1 Mar 2009, 7:06 pm
If the amount is over $20,000 but under $100,000 it becomes a third degree felony where the range of punishment if from 2 to 10 years in the Texas Department of Corrections and a fine up to $10,000. [read post]
