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20 May 2007, 2:14 am
All of these items are in the Senate proposal but not the House:$50 million to implement a TYC rehabilitation plan$35 million more for community corrections of youth (more important than ever since we're releasing kids from TYC)$100 million more for community-based treatment programs for adults.$43 million more to bring TDCJ healthcare up to minimum constitutional standards.$10 million more to probation departments for basic supervision funds.So that's $238 million in… [read post]
19 May 2007, 10:12 am
Outside of the five main executing states of Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri and Florida, this figure rises to one in five for the remaining 28 jurisdictions that have executed since 1977. [read post]
16 May 2007, 8:12 am
Texas prison guards smuggling cell phones to inmatesHouse Corrections considers improving phone access [read post]
12 May 2007, 11:24 am
Security through obscurity is SOOOOO last century - transparency at TYC is the best way to keep kids safe.Drilling down into prison dentistryRead an interview with Pamela Myers, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Dental Hygiene Coordinator. [read post]
11 May 2007, 5:55 am
IncarcerationThe House Corrections Committee this week approved SB 1909, see here, which would divert many drug addicts to treatment instead of incarceration, as well as SB 166 by West, see here, that prioritizes probation grants for departments that establish a system of progressive sanctions.Chairman Madden's bill to revamp probation departments' funding mechanism to support these progressive sanctions regiments - HB 3200, see the HRO report - also cleared… [read post]
9 May 2007, 5:18 am
Texas (sigh). [read post]
6 May 2007, 2:03 pm
Attorney Jennifer Brandt, a partner in the family law department at Cozen O'Connor in Philadelphia, agrees. [read post]
6 May 2007, 4:56 am
Proposed new spending at community health centers for "competency restoration," while necessary, won't help in the short term, won't be enough to cover projected needs, and pending litigation could force the state to spend more to correct the problem by 2009 - that is, if the Texas Legislature's budget conferees don't agree to more funding with a different spending mix than either chamber has suggested.As I write this, nearly 200 mentally ill or… [read post]
5 May 2007, 7:57 am
It's scheduled for a hearing in House Corrections on Monday. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 8:42 pm
"Sullivan did caution, however, that no pistoleros from these "sites" better cross the river and rustle any Texas cattle, or, by gum, they'll be hell--and the Texas Rangers--to pay.No worries there, it seems. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 1:39 am
Just this month, Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group closed the $28 billion purchase of Harrah's Entertainment. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 12:19 am
With just over thirty days left in the 80th Texas Legislature, they sent out an email updating supporters on bills that will be heard at the Texas Lege next week. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 7:51 am
Good news for local officials managing understaffed and overcrowded jails - the 80th Texas Legislature's best chance to assist counties with the crisis in local jail overcrowding, HB 2391 by Madden, passed on second reading this afternoon on the House floor on a voice vote. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 9:31 am
That legislation adjusts funding incentives for probation departments to encourage offenders to earn their way off supervision through good behavior. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 1:08 am
One quarter of Texas 122 probation departments, said Ms. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 8:03 am
In addition, the Corrections Committee approved Rep. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 2:57 am
• Texas: 12 percent• Florida: 4 percent• New York: Less than 1 percent Texas prison units with highest correctional officer vacancy rates, as of Feb. 28: • Dalhart: 37 percent• Smith: 33… [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 12:34 am
That bill would establish a research center at a Texas medical school that will "focus its efforts at preventing and reducing communicable diseases in inmate populations at correctional facilities and in those populations that are most likely to come in contact with inmates in a correctional environment. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 8:15 am
Another preview from tomorrow's House Corrections agenda:Ever since the Texas Legislature first began discussing the idea of reducing probation revocations by letting offenders earn their way off supervision through good behavior, local probation departments have had one overarching concern - because they were paid per probationer, letting offenders off early, even if for a good reason, reduced their agencies' overall budgets.In the big picture it costs the state… [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 1:18 am
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES ---------------------- . --------------------- JAMES LEE CLARK DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL CASE No. [read post]
