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8 Aug 2012, 7:21 am
An application for State Bar of Texas continuing education legal education credit is pen [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 1:04 pm
More Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees voluntarily left the agency last year than workers in any other state department, state reports show.The article offered up this description of the consequences of understaffing at rural, adult prison units:Most guards spend 12-hour shifts in poorly heated or cooled prisons, [retired warden Keith Price] said.Meanwhile, overtime costs soar. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 9:36 am
The state legislature adopted the unified process in 1997 in an effort to speed up death-penalty appeals. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 8:19 am
Despite over-the-top criticisms by legislators that TJJD administrators exhibited a "hug a thug" mentality, it's the Legislature, not agency administrators, which decides how many JCOs TJJD get to hire and what they are paid. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 8:03 am
The Texas Legislature has failed to address the issue after Gov. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 4:47 am
"WorkCompCentral reporter Michael Whiteley found out as much when he prepared his special report on the state's workers' compensation system, published Monday.A review of data from the workers' compensation systems in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas and interviews with experts inside and beyond the Empire State, show: New York State Workers' Compensation Board's (SWCB) 94 judges held 266,046 hearings last year. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 3:32 pm
As Rick pointed out last week, the University of Texas has found that California’s groundwater resources are “being depleted at an alarming rate” and the state’s use of them is completely unsustainable. [read post]
4 Aug 2012, 6:52 am
Together these programs form a network of data points that can tell the government a lot about our lives.The Texas Department of Transportation in 2008 rejected a DEA request to install license plate readers on Texas highways, however another recent ACLU blog post stated that "scanners are already in place on 'drug trafficking corridors' in California and Texas. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 1:41 pm
Did you know that horse slaughter for human consumption has technically been illegal in the State of Texas from 1949 to the present? [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
” This corporate lobbying drive first focused on state legislatures. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:14 am
A decade on, its legislature has yet to enact a law to comply with Atkins, and there are fears that “temporary” guidelines developed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) in 2004 are letting the state execute offenders who should be exempted from this punishment under the Constitution. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:37 am
Faced with dwindling staff, TDCJ had to close several more dorms at a South Texas lockup. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 9:04 am
But the Texas legislature was too busy with such things as passing laws requiring students to pledge allegiance to the flags of the U.S. and Texas and spend a minute in “silent reflection” (right-wing code for prayer) to ever get around to dealing with the matter. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 12:00 am
She was among the 1st women elected to the Texas Legislature. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 2:51 pm
While the federal government has yet to take on the federal prison crisis in earnest, a number of states – including Connecticut, South Carolina, Texas and Vermont – have already demonstrated that bipartisan criminal justice reform can reduce the prison population, cut corrections expenditures and maintain public safety. [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 11:21 am
Texas courts developed the factors because, unlike in most other death-penalty jurisdictions, the Texas legislature has not bothered to define the condition statutorily. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 10:10 am
Four years later Texas voters enacted Article 4, Section 11A of the Constitution, providing that the Courts of the State of Texas would have original jurisdiction in all criminal cases with the inherent power to suspend sentences and place defendants on probation. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 7:27 am
A post from our friends in the LRL library.The Texas Legislature in FictionJuly 30, 2012posted by TexasLRL in Interesting documentsWhile Texas and its people are a popular subject for fiction, rarely does the Texas Legislature take a starring role. [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 6:03 am
That makes Texas a daylight thief. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 1:46 pm
Against this backdrop of health care pricing practices, the Texas Legislature enacted Section 41.0105 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code. [read post]
