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13 May 2010, 4:59 am
Interim budget cuts for state agencies including the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will be released tomorrow, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison health care could be cut with budget," May 13):state agencies are awaiting word on just how much they will have to cut from their current budgets to make up for expected shortfalls this year — around $1.7 billion in reductions that are expected to be unveiled Friday. ...Prison officials reportedly… [read post]
13 May 2010, 4:27 am
Here's a startling punch in the gut for state budget writers and prison managers, as reported by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison health care could be cut with budget," May 13):An early casualty of impending state budget cuts could be the health care contract that serves most of Texas' 154,000 prison convicts.Top officials at the University of Texas System, whose Galveston medical branch provides the health services, are threatening to cancel the… [read post]
9 May 2010, 11:17 am
Federal inmates already had email privileges, but apparently the Texas Legislature didn't realize they'd authorized the same thing, reports Mike Ward at the Statesman ("Inmates get email? [read post]
6 May 2010, 5:20 am
A contraband ring broken up at the Coffield Unit in Palestine shows how inmates, prison staff and family members on the outside combine to engage in illicit smuggling, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Troubling new details surfaced Wednesday about the depth of illegal smuggling inside Texas' massive prison system, including revealing glimpses into how convicts may be operating drug- and money-laundering rackets with the help of guards and family members.The new… [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 5:36 am
But that crime is rarely prosecuted.Relatedly, Mike Ward at the Statesman has a blog post about a bipartisan letter from legislators asking TDCJ officials to address the issues raised in a recent report by Just Detention International.And I'd missed last month an essay in the New York Review of Books focusing on carceral rape and in particular the TYC sex abuse cases. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 5:48 am
From Mike Ward at the Statesman:John Moore, a retired U.S. marshal and state trooper, was appointed [Wednesday] to be the new independent ombudsman at the Texas Youth Commission. ...Moore, a Denison resident, is retired after a 25-year career as a federal marshal, and served before that as a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and an officer in the Amarillo Police Department. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:24 am
From Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Security at the Texas Capitol will be increased under a seven-step plan approved by the state’s top three leaders and disclosed this morning in a letter delivered to lawmakers. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 8:22 am
More detail from Mike Ward at the Statesman on what's apparently a chronic problems with prisonsers walking off the Central Unit in Sugarland to shop at a nearby Walmart (you can't make this stuff up):Prison officials never knew he was gone.And after they were tipped to the late-night trip, officials confirmed Monday, they had to verify the escape by viewing the store's surveillance camera system — which was much better than the one the prison has.Authorities… [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 9:00 am
Gennaro and Major Mike Clancy of the U.S. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 12:20 pm
See a brief description from Mike Ward at the Statesman, who reports:Victory Field Correctional Academy in Vernon and the West Texas State School in Pyote, both slated to be closed in August, will instead would shut down April 2 to save about $3.5 million. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 4:46 am
TDCJ, TYC and the Juvenile Probation Commission will all be generating plans, so we'll have more information on the subject next week.UPDATE: See "Prisons chief: No prison closures in budget cut plan," in which the Statesman's Mike Ward reports:Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said a document to be submitted Monday to state leaders outlining a 5-percent cut in the agency’s nearly $3 billion, two-year budget… [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 6:37 pm
Click Here New ruling: WVDEP deals don’t insulate coal companies. - Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, February 4, 2010 While the rest of us were focused on President Obama’s big meeting with West Virginia Gov. [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 2:25 pm
Click Here New ruling: WVDEP deals don’t insulate coal companies. - Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, February 4, 2010 While the rest of us were focused on President Obama’s big meeting with West Virginia Gov. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:25 am
Ann Bartow highlighted a program on remix culture and Mike Madison discussed the topic in greater depth, considering "best practices" in the fair use claims which underlie remixing. 18 - Victoria Pynchon, of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, has sent us her picture [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:25 am
Ann Bartow highlighted a program on remix culture and Mike Madison discussed the topic in greater depth, considering "best practices" in the fair use claims which underlie remixing. 18 - Victoria Pynchon, of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, has sent us her picture [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 7:16 pm
The following is a summary review of articles from all over the nation concerning environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]
14 Jan 2010, 3:22 am
"Mike" Yarbrough • Kelley Don Adley District Clerk • Patricia Wysong Crigger • Terrye Evans • Alma Hays Criminal District Attorney • Jeff Bray • Greg Willis • James Angelino County Judge • Keith Self • John Muns County Commissioner, Precinct 2 • Karl Voigtsberger • Cheryl Williams • Jerry Hoagland County Commissioner, Precinct 4 • Kathy Ward • Duncan Webb Ballot Placement Journal… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:01 pm
— Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, December 29, 2009 Word just in from CONSOL Energy Inc. that will be welcome news for 500 coal miners and their families up in the Clay County area of West Virginia. [read post]
2 Jan 2010, 1:29 pm
. - www.judgeroach.org Justice of the Peace - 4 Kelley Adley - www.kelleyadley.com Mike Yarbrough - www.judgemikeyarbrough.com Doug Reeves - no site yet DISTRICT ATTORNEY Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis - www.gregwillis.org K. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 8:05 am
Montgomery Ward & Co. v. [read post]
