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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… [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… [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 10:19 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reports that the state prison system's crackdown on cell phones and contraband have continued after a lockdown last fall supposedly began an era of "zero tolerance" ("Cell phone smuggling continues," Jan. 26):More than 200 cell phones have been confiscated in state prison cellblocks since a system-wide shakedown for contraband ended in November, almost twice as many as were seized during the lockdown. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 10:50 pm
Yesterday morning in Lubbock, someone rushed up to me, PDA in hand, to share a story from the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward that any regular Grits reader should have seen coming ("Youth prisons halt overtime, Oct. 30"):In its latest official stumble, the Texas Youth Commission spent more than half of its yearly budget for overtime payments in just one month, and it will temporarily stop paying overtime to its 2,200 guards. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 12:19 pm
In this morning’s Austin American Statesman, the always excellent Mike Ward (and I don’t say that just because our daughters are in the same class and Girl Scout Troop) has an article detailing a movement pushing for the adoption of a “DWI Lite” crime. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 1:15 am
Despite a last minute effort to mislead the public by pretending he had bi-partisan support and the endorsement of Democratic State Representative Mike Gerber. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:45 pm
Mike Anderson: Is a small amount of cocaine, heroin, of methamphetamine against—is possession of it against the law, as written in Austin? [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 2:27 pm
The last time Austin had a fatal crane accident, city council member Mike Martinez suggested that the City of Austin should consider regulating cranes. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 11:19 am
Dallas lawyer Mike Maslanka was at the Texas Law Center last week to film new clips for his YouTube video series Mike Maslanka @ Your Desk. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 8:31 am
But the Greater Austin Crime Commission and Republican leaders at Save Austin Now - with the Governor adding a statewide megaphone - hammered the city council to restart the police academy before it could be completed.So they did, even though advocates opposed it. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 1:24 pm
Mike Ward has this story in the Austin Statesman on a report at the National Conference of State Legislatures citing studies by the notoriously left-leaning MacArthur Foundation.The science simply does not support the proposed rules of law for which it is usually cited: blanket rules exempting young offenders from particular punishments, with chronological age alone trumping all other considerations. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Four years ago, state officials heralded the gift of a red brick hospital in a residential neighborhood, unveiling plans to convert the onetime Veterans Affairs center into a prison hospital for women.Today, after funding for the project evaporated, the six-story building remains vacant. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:35 am
An article by Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman today ("Cell phones hard to find on death row," Nov. 23) makes me fear Texas prison administrators haven't learned the right lessons from the recent rash of contraband discoveries (particularly cell phones) on death row:"A year ago, we were amazed to find an inmate with both a cell phone and a charger up there," John Moriarty, the state prison system's inspector general, said Thursday. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 12:50 am
In yet another effort to combat contraband smuggling, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice instituted a lockdown yesterday at 14 maximum security units, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:More than 35,000 convicts at 14 of Texas' toughest prisons have been placed on lockdown status in a new crackdown on contraband smuggling â€â [read post]
22 May 2009, 8:13 am
"Veto threat dooms change in death penalty law," is Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.Death penalty opponents have long decried a Texas law that allows the state to impose the ultimate punishment â€â [read post]
25 May 2007, 5:30 am
Mike Ward has an update on the status of new prisons in the yet-to-be-revealed state budget in the Austin Statesman's Postcards from the Lege blog:Building the new prisons will come with strings. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 1:00 pm
"NRA opens new front in gun rights battle; Lubbock lawsuits challenge limits on handguns for 18-to-20 year-olds": Mike Ward has this article today in The Austin American-Statesman. [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]
16 Sep 2015, 8:16 am
XOR CEO Mike Cook voiced his company’s gratification with the input of “strategic capital from a new industry … [with] deep…experience in the […] [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 12:54 pm
The UT Board of Regents approved a 30-day extension of UTMB's contract with the Department of Criminal Justice to provide prison healthcare, but vowed to end the contract after December if the state can't come up with roughly $100 million more than was budgeted by the Lege this spring, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman. [read post]
