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11 Oct 2007, 11:34 pm
Mike Ward on Madden and Whitmire: Leaders appear to divergeWhitmire takes UTMB to task for lockup conditionsFired TYC monitors had worked for facility's operatorThree of fired TYC monitors previously worked for GeoTYC's facility closure blocks plan for all-girls unitAlso, this rapid turnaround shows how quickly TYC employees can turn from heroes to goats in the eyes of agency administrators, and how accolades and credit bestowed upon whistleblowers at TYC sometimes can be… [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 5:28 am
Oddly, she went out of her way to say her beef wasn't with Mike Ward, who was in the room and who she said was doing his job, but he's been the primary Statesman reporter assigned to the story for many months.Her two chief complaints, she said, were people questioning her leadership ability and comments made about the Coke County closure. [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 12:18 am
Jim Hurley told the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward that Rumbo's background check "came up totally clean" before he was hired to head education programs at Crockett. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 4:53 am
Here's a prediction based solely on circumstances, I have no inside knowledge: An attorney somewhere in Texas will soon sue the Youth Commission on behalf of one of the 79 youth offenders with determinate sentences being kept there past their 19th birthday.And they'll win.The Dallas News follows up today on the Statesman's Mike Ward's report earlier this week that the Youth Commission will not release 19-20 year olds with determinate sentences, as previously… [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 12:37 am
According to the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward ("Youth commission changes course on older offenders," 9/25),On Tuesday, Dimitria Pope, the agency's acting executive director, announced that 79 of 159 older offenders will be kept in agency lockups, and another 40 will remain on Youth Commission parole. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
The Statesman's Mike Ward caught Rissie Owens in a fib when she said the parole board didn't have information about the youth it intends to parole. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
The Statesman's Mike Ward caught Rissie Owens in a fib when she said the parole board didn't have information about the youth it intends to parole. [read post]
16 Sep 2007, 12:39 pm
In the Austin Statesman today Mike Ward answers why Texas Youth Commission conservator Ed Owens has appeared AWOL the last few weeks - he actually retired on Aug. 31 and now only occasionally comes to Austin or checks in by phone.Owens didn't tell the Legislature at the joint House-Senate hearing on August 29 that he would retire and become a volunteer two days later - it's inconceivable that he didn't know, so the only reason could be an intentional decision to keep… [read post]
16 Sep 2007, 12:39 pm
In the Austin Statesman today Mike Ward answers why Texas Youth Commission conservator Ed Owens has appeared AWOL the last few weeks - he actually retired on Aug. 31 and now only occasionally comes to Austin or checks in by phone.Owens didn't tell the Legislature at the joint House-Senate hearing on August 29 that he would retire and become a volunteer two days later - it's inconceivable that he didn't know, so the only reason could be an intentional decision to keep… [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 9:05 am
Reports Mike Ward:The suit alleges that [TYC executive commissioner Dimitria] Pope changed the policy in violation of a state law that requires public notice of such changes. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 1:25 am
Also, in hard copy I was given resumes of executive staff, results of an OIG investigation into who leaked information to Statesman reporter Mike Ward (answer: no one at TYC), daily TYC population charts going back several months, and preliminary data on pepper spray use (20-50 sprays per week system-wide since the practice began). [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 5:55 am
Mike Ward has, "Perry spares life of getaway driver," in the Austin American-Statesman.oster's impending execution had drawn a flood of protests from as far away as Europe, with former South African peace activist Desmond Tutu and former President Carter among the hundreds who had filed written protests to stop the execution â€â [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 11:38 pm
After receiving criticisms for attempting to parole older youth who'd committed serious offenses, TYC today took a broadside from Mike Ward about the number of misdemeanor inmates still incarcerated:In mid-June, 503 youths were being held for misdemeanor crimes, including five who were supposed to have been released in 2005, according to internal commission reports. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 2:01 am
Providing further evidence the present TYC administration simply cannot handle the job they've been assigned, the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward today reports ("Pepper spray use at Youth Commission draws ire," Aug. 24):National experts are questioning whether expanded use of chemical agents will limit injuries or cause further trouble inside Texas' juvenile lockups. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 5:46 am
In the Austin Statesman today ("Texas Youth Commission investigates leaks") Mike Ward reports on an inquiry into who released information about the troubled agency to Ward for a previous story.TYC Public Information Officer Jim Hurley contacted me before I'd even noticed the piece! [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 10:05 pm
[Pasquale, Concurring Opinions] California Assembly votes to require pet owners to sterilize mixed-breed dogs and cats, while UK animal rights authority mulls rights for invertebrates [Mangu-Ward and Bailey, Reason] Here come the tainted-Chinese-export suits, with many American defendants on the hook [Parloff, Fortune] Plus: car with the "E COLI" license plate may be driving lawyer to work [WSJ Law Blog] Gimme those antiquities: Peru vs. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 9:38 am
Marvel had their Spider-Man LSD story, DC had the infamous Green Lantern, Green Arrow storyline in which Green Arrow’s Ward and Sidekick Speedy was addicted to Heroin. [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 12:07 am
The general attitude of reporter Mike Ward's report can be summed up with this comment from a prison ministry worker in Houston: "It feels weird for Texas to be approving this, but it's happened. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 12:21 pm
" I haven't had time to examine either document but TYC employees in particular should take a look and let me know in the comments whether you think this article by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman was a fair representation of the plan given limited resources.In addition, some commenters here thought Ward misrepresented in this article how determinations are made at TYC for how long to incarcerate youth and when to release them. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 2:34 am
Reading between the lines, this was a bit of a hit job by Austin Statesman reporter Mike Ward, who generated the response from legislators himself with an open record request and reported the story before Harrell had seen their letter. [read post]
