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2 Jul 2007, 10:08 am
Patterson's mental illness was so severe that even the Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended a commutation. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 3:40 am
So in Texas, individual offenders might get out years earlier instead of 18 days if the parole board is under pressure at the time to release more people, as they are right now. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:48 am
Morris hopes his chances of release will be better there than in Mineral Wells.Only about one in 10 Mineral Wells inmates is any closer to release than inmates elsewhere in the system, estimated Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
27 May 2007, 5:39 am
Owens' elevation to czar status.Owens' wife, Rissie is also a Perry appointee - she chairs the state's Board of Pardons and Parole, which places an inordinate amount of authority over the state's corrections system in the hands of this little known power couple.TYC seems to have fallen off the media radar screen for now, but I hope it continues to receive the level of scrutiny afforded it at the height of session, and that the same spotlight is shone on… [read post]
21 May 2007, 8:15 am
SB 909 by Whitmire (D-Houston), and carried by Representatives Madden (R-Plano), Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), Flynn (R-Canton), Hochberg (D-Houston), Cook (R-Austin) - relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee and to the functions of the Board of Pardons and Paroles - has been set on the House Calendar for Monday, May… [read post]
8 May 2007, 2:47 am
We need to see a lot more of that kind of initiative from the Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
3 May 2007, 8:29 am
LINKThe Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended that Gov. [read post]
14 Apr 2007, 1:00 am
Rick Perry appointed then-TDCJ #2 man Ed Owens, whose wife is chair of the Board of Pardons and Parole, to run the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 6:30 am
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected clemency, and Governor... [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 1:18 am
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES ---------------------- . --------------------- JAMES LEE CLARK DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL CASE No. [read post]
8 Apr 2007, 11:06 pm
Clark's defense team has asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Texas Governor Rick Perry to halt the execution because of the likelihood that Clark suffers from mental retardation. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:13 pm
Another application for Executive Clemency was filed on April 6, 2004 to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 8:16 am
05 April 2007UA 80/07 Death penalty / Legal concernUSA (Texas) James Lee Clark (m), white, aged 38James Clark is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 11 April2007. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 12:41 am
This week Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronicle offers up a fine article on failures of the Board of Pardons and Parole to follow its release guidelines, and a pending lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project to seek an end to the cloak of secrecy surrounding parole decisions. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 10:19 am
UPDATE: More thoughts on the subject from the Socratic Gadfly.Boosting parole rates for reformed prisonersHB 2938 by McReynolds aims its sights directly at Texas' recalcitrant Board of Pardons and Parole, which many in the pink dome blame for Texas' prison overcrowding crisis for not meeting its own guidelines for releasing low-level offenders. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 8:30 am
The Houston Chronicle has reported that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles yesterday rejected Joseph Nichols' plea for a commutation of his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 7:05 am
Nichols is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.Anyone who feels theseissues do matter should immediately contact the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and the governor's office. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 3:47 pm
The Ed and Rissie Show Not everyone was happy with Governor Perry's new appointment to run the Texas Youth Commission - Ed Owens, whose wife Rissie is the chair of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 5:34 am
" Meanwhile Governor Perry appointed Ed Owens, husband of Board of Pardons and Parole Chair Rissie Owens, as the new executive director of TYC. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
Last year TDCJ recommended that 451 offenders be released because their poor health generated high healthcare costs, but the Board of Pardons and Parole only approved 164 of them. [read post]
