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16 Jul 2017, 4:25 am
The Houston Chronicle had a feature this week citing a supposedly declining murder total from the year-to-date data, after two successive years of growth in that crime category. [read post]
26 Feb 2016, 12:39 pm
Here’s the indictment: The Houston Chronicle (Mihir Zaveri) reports: A Galveston city police sergeant has been indicted by a grand jury on a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge arising from the search of a self-described video activist’s vehicle, according to prosecutors. . . . [read post]
13 Jan 2018, 8:46 pm
" In today's edition of The Houston Chronicle, Andrea Zelinski and Kevin Diaz have a front page article headlined "U.S. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm
"Deliberately indifferent TDCJ medical care caused heart attackThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a plaintiff in a case alleging TDJC's deliberate indifference contributed to an inmate's heart attack.Suicide kills more TDCJ inmates than executionsSuicide attempts in Texas prisons have doubled in the last four years, reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 8:34 am
See coverage from the Houston Chronicle and the judge's 100+ page order.It's hard to know the implications for several reasons. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 5:22 am
Again, the strength of any such claim depends on the particular facts.The Houston Chronicle reports on developments. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 11:29 am
The culture of a prison changes when outsiders shine a light on its operations and conditions.Meanwhile, our pals Cate Graziani and Doug Smith have an op ed in the Houston Chronicle titled, "Better state jail oversight can prevent suicides," That article concludes:high suicide rates cannot be attributed solely to mental health disorders. [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 7:20 am
The Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger describes a case in which a DEA informant, who has since recanted his testimony, accused Lamar Burks of murdering someone at a dice game. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 12:24 pm
Voters, press, overwhelmed by judicial race volumeRidiculously, "there are 75 contested judicial races alone on the November ballot" in Harris County, reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 7:03 am
Or at least that's what you'd take away from this item in the Houston Press, in which Meagan Flynn localized the story of Amanda Woog's new death-in-custody database to focus on deaths at the Harris County Jail. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 3:57 pm
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere:Hurricane Harvey aftermath still affecting Harris CountyThe Houston Chronicle reports on long delays and an uncertain future for Harris County criminal courts. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 10:33 am
That part's easier said than done.Houston Chron critiques overuse of pretrial detentionFollowing up on an earlier report Grits discussed here regarding the relation between jail overcrowding and the ability of defendants to make bail, the Houston Chronicle editorial board this week decried "an environment created by criminal court judges and prosecutors largely inured to the hardships and injustices routinely placed on the poor; and with no evident recognition of a cruel form of… [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 5:38 am
Without significant policy changes to take some of the stress off of the agency and its employees, the system is on the verge of crisis along several axes.As the Texas Senate Finance Committee prepares to hear testimony today on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's budget request, the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger reported over the weekend that understaffing at several rural prison units is reaching crisis levels, with system-wide turnover approaching 30… [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 7:09 am
Heck, it'd probably be more, since for every dollar spent on TDCJ Texas spends another 30+ cents in other areas of the budget.In reality, Collier and TDCJ's budget folks understand that reduced incarceration and prison closure is a more rational approach than "reductions in convict health care, meals, as well as prison and parole operations," as Collier suggested to the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:35 am
And now the Houston Chronicle reports that Gov. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 1:45 pm
His law, as he explained in an interview with the Houston Chronicle, will only expel women who are trans from women’s restrooms and not trans men from men’s restrooms because “men can defend themselves. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 1:10 pm
Though the Houston Chronicle repeated the claim ("failure to comply with the federal law carries a possible criminal penalty"), there are no criminal penalties in PREA for non-compliant governors. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am
Given that both Texas political parties have endorsed eliminating most Class C arrests, maybe there's another way to skin that cat.Convict leasing history unearthedCheck out the Houston Chronicle story about dozens of bodies of former inmates unearthed at a Fort Bend County construction site. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 7:53 am
As reported in the Austin Chronicle, the deal means that Austin Energy could reach its goal of 200 megawatts of solar power by 2020 well ahead of schedule. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 5:23 am
Now it's either somebody at the Chronicle or some other Houston media outlet's turn to do the same for the Harris County jail. [read post]
