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5 Mar 2007, 11:12 am
Sincerely, Ed OwensActing Executive DirectorThe part about reviewing each staff person's resume does remind me of the Bexar County Probation Department squabble. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 9:12 pm
Capitol Annex apparently has the goods on tomorrow's House floor substitute for Texas' version of "Jessica's Law" (HB 8). [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 7:42 pm
Oregon Department of Corrections decides where offenders may live. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 5:41 am
Just a quick roundup this morning before things get churning in a busy week:Good bills up in House Corrections First, be sure to check out prior Grits coverage of good bills up in House Corrections today, including HB 530 authorizing the proliferation of drug courts in Texas. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 6:32 am
In Jake's case, he gave away too much of the pension - 50% to his ex - rather than the correct percentage, which probably would have been closer to 16%. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 12:48 pm
Here are the highlights:Voter Reinfranchisement:HB 770 provides notice to offenders that they are eligible to vote when they are "off paper," meaning they no longer supervised by the Texas Department of Corrections or a local probation department. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 10:35 am
With apologies in advance for the length of this post, here's why:According to the HB 8 fiscal note, "For fiscal year 2006, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) received 633 offenders for the offenses of indecency with a child, and sexual performance of a child, where the offense was punishable as a felony of the second degree," approximately 537 of whom committed the offense against someone under 14. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 7:45 am
Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock; Lubbock County Sheriff David Gutierrez; Jim Bethke, director of the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense; Mike Maples, director of mental health/substance abuse programs at the Texas Department of State Health Services; and Dee Wilson, director of Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments. [read post]
17 Feb 2007, 4:01 pm
" As if to confirm Young's observation, a post from Kathleen Bergin, a law professor at South Texas College of Law (not exactly a Tier 1 school) whose expertise comes in the one-sided areas of "critical race theory and feminist jurisprudence. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 7:34 am
Two articles this morning show that many practitioners who know most about Texas' corrections system think it needs a dramatic overhaul. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 4:00 am
Here are snippets:The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is requesting funds for three new prisons; two maximum security units each housing 2,000 inmates and one medium security unit housing 1,000. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 1:08 pm
But I certainly think before Texas launches too many new faith-based programs, we should fully fund the oldest faith-based intiative in the history of Texas corrections: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's (TDCJ's) Chaplaincy program. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 12:00 am
Department of Corrections Commissioner Joan Fabian said that after the state had negotiated its second 2-year contract with the group, she found out that InnerChange was operating in Texas prisons without charge. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 8:36 pm
I did the same to a State of Texas employee last year who spent hours of time during the work day attempting to harass me through blog comments. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 1:26 pm
Given the many crime lab controversies, Texas legislators saw a need in 2005 for a concept that few states have tried—an independent body that could investigate allegations of misconduct against crime labs and correct poor forensic practices. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 6:29 am
Northwestern and Fordham's VAP programs and Texas' Emerging Scholars Program are on this model. [read post]
4 Feb 2007, 12:07 pm
Before takng his current job, Reynolds served twelve years as General Counsel to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, where, he writes: I learned that a correctional agency has an inherent interest in maintaining some otherwise unpopular features in state sentencing laws - good conduct time and parole - that provide "back end discretion," and therefore some behavioral incentive during incarceration. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 10:49 am
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, 2006 U.S. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 6:13 am
While I'm more often focused on the adult prison system, it's become clear to me in the last year that if the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has its problems, the Texas Youth Commission is operating in a state of full-blown crisis.Things have gotten so bad it's hard to wrap your brain around the massive scope of this enormous mess. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 6:17 am
Fabelo wrote the report, "Justice Reinvestment: A Framework to Improve Effectiveness of Justice Policies in Texas," backed by grants from the State Council on Governments, the Pew Foundation and Justice Department. [read post]
