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18 May 2012, 7:53 am
Rick Perry moved Jay Kimbrough from his new position as assistant director for homeland security at the Department of Public Safety to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department to bring some urgently needed safety and security to the agency's youth lockups. [read post]
13 May 2012, 5:00 am
The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, pointed to his state as an example of this. [read post]
12 May 2012, 9:45 am
” If that's accurate, it's Governor Rick Perry's Criminal Justice Division policies, not federal law or regulations, keeping counties from applying for Byrne/JAG money for indigent defense programs.Grits contacted the Governor's Criminal Justice Division on Friday to ask why that rule is in place, but after an email query and leaving a message with a receptionist did not receive a return call by the end of the day. [read post]
9 May 2012, 5:59 am
Rick Perry's problem solver, Jay Kimbrough, is going back to the state's juvenile justice agency, which is facing a crisis again five years after the last time he helped bail the agency out of a major scandal. [read post]
8 May 2012, 9:46 am
However, less than two months after Governor Rick Perry appointed Eleanor Kitzman to be the new TDI Commissioner, TDI’s practice of publicly releasing information on insurance companies and agents that violate state laws has come to an end. [read post]
2 May 2012, 5:57 am
Bartee's execution would be the 244th execution conducted under the administration of Rick Perry. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 7:24 am
The tort reform efforts put into place in Texas made national news over the last year as Texas Governor Rick Perry ran for President highlighting these “reform” efforts. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 7:31 am
It was the state's 482nd post-Furman execution since 1982, and the 243rd execution conducted under the administration of Rick Perry. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 7:24 am
Hispanics are also reacting to Romney’s attack just a few months ago on GOP rival Texas Governor Rick Perry for supporting in-state tuition at the University of Texas for children of undocumented immigrants. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
It would be the 243rd execution conducted under the administration of Rick Perry. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 7:02 am
If that happens, Grits expects or at least hopes Rick Perry and Co. will take a much different approach from that of AZ Governor Jan Brewer, who mused about the prospects for "mass incarceration" after oral arguments, according to NPR:Outside after the argument, Arizona's governor was asked if, in fact, the state does have plans for a mass incarceration of the estimated 400,000 illegal immigrants in her state. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 12:17 pm
”If Overton's habeas petition does not prevail, Governor Rick Perry should pardon her.MORE (4/26): From the Corpus Christi Caller Times, "Former Nueces County District Attorney: Lead Overton prosecutor had unethical tactics. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:28 am
But I have never been free.Two months later, DNA evidence proved my innocence.Because I pleaded no-contest to the murder, I cannot be declared actually innocent unless the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommends to Governor Rick Perry that I be pardoned and Texas Governor Rick Perry agrees and sets me free.Without being exonerated, I feel I am still in a Texas prison.Please sign my petition and ask the Texas Board of… [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 2:20 pm
In March 2007 Governor Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 378, a law which allows Texans to use deadly force when they are threatened in their homes, cars, and public areas. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
The story of Beef Products Inc.'s Lean Finely Textured Beef isn't new, and neither is the nickname "pink slime. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 1:12 pm
The moderator asked Governor Rick Perry how he felt about the 234 executions that he had presided over in Texas, more executions than any other Governor in modern times and before the Governor had even had a chance to respond, the crowd cheered. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
., the nation's largest producer of LFTB, recently suspended operations at its plant in Waterloo, IA and the news immediately put Iowa politicians, on both sides of the aisle, into damage control mode.Last week, Gov.Terry Branstad pulled together a high-profile media event on short notice featuring governors Rick Perry of Texas and Sam Brownback of Kansas, as well as lieutenant governors from Nebraska and South Dakota and the Under Secretary for Food Safety… [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 2:17 pm
Governor Rick Perry exonerated Cole, making him the first person in Texas to be pardoned posthumously. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
Rick Perry's 2007 State of the State speech, showing a clip where the Governor declared that "There are thousands of non-violent offenders in the system whose future we cannot ignore. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 7:58 am
Our current governor is Rick ("The Slick") Perry. [read post]
