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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]
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]
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]
27 Nov 2017, 5:32 pm
"Abbott names top adviser to spot on Texas Supreme Court; Nominee to replace Twitter laureate does not tweet, has flip phone": Mike Ward of The Houston Chronicle has this report. [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 10:48 am
Following up on that Austin American-Statesman article I mentioned yesterday, which cited “very broad-based support” for an incipient plan to do away with the Texas Youth Commission: Here’s Grits for Breakfast with some commentary: In related news, the Austin Statesman’s Mike Ward and Senate Criminal Justice Chairman John Whitmire tag teamed again today for another story [...] [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 3:04 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that the Public Safety Commission is expected to approve new Indigence and Amnesty rules for the Driver Responsibility Program at their next meeting October 21 (pdf). [read post]
29 Jan 2009, 9:55 am
My friend Ray Ward will be presenting, along with Mike Fontham and several other local lawyers. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:00 pm
It should be shutdown, IMO. 01/09/2009 By Mike Ward/Cox News Service Texas Youth Commission investigators are trying to determine why several incarcerated teenage boys who were sexually assaulted at a Waco-area lockup had been put the same cells with youths accused of sex crimes, officials confirmed Friday. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 1:15 pm
"Hundreds of calls from death row; now a call to action," is Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.On Monday morning, authorities busted Richard Lee Tabler in his death row cell and charged him with possession of the phone. [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 9:52 am
With Cadillac Williams out, Derrick Ward should start to perform as a decent RB2. [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 8:56 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has the scoop on what the proposed fix for Texas' prison overcrowding will look like, and it's nothing like what prison officials originally proposed. [read post]
8 May 2012, 9:01 am
An audit found poor documentation for much of the construction and other contract spending by the Texas Youth Commission, now the Juvenile Justice Department, reported the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward on Saturday. [read post]
6 Dec 2006, 7:30 am
Following up on yesterday reporting by Mike Ward on prison capacity, the Austin American-Statesman today has an editorial, "New prisons will cost taxpayers money, so be sure they're needed. [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]
22 Jan 2011, 11:21 am
Just about everybody who's looked at it thinks the 24% budget cut slated for prison healthcare in Texas proposed House budget is unworkable; now we learn it supposedly opens a path toward privatizing prison healthcare, reports Mike Ward at the Statesman:Health care for inmates in Texas' 112 prisons costs taxpayers more than $929 million for two years. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 4:15 am
The new head of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), Mike Griffiths, plans to shake up agency management, the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported today, reducing the number of top supervisory staff by as much as 20%, and has handed out writing assignments to agency leaders asking how they hope to fit in with thenew management stucture and soliciting suggestions for improving the agency. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 12:16 am
But now Mike Ward at the Statesman reports TDCJ is shifting that money around to give larger raises to supervisors ("Prison guards say pay raise not as much as promised," Aug. 29):Four months ago, with the state budget feeling the pinch of a diving economy, Texas' 24,000 correctional officers cheered the news that the Legislature had given them a 3.5 percent pay raise, effective this fall.By Friday, that thrill was fading: Prison officials acknowledged correctional… [read post]
13 May 2009, 3:06 pm
Mike Ward reports, "Shanda Perkins nomination busted," on the Austin American-Statesman Postcards blog.In a rare public rebuke, the Texas Senate this afternoon just blocked the controversial nomination of unemployed Burleson banker Shanda Perkins to become a member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 8:20 am
"Legislators, lobbyists push health insurance reform - Before prayer, pastor asks for halt to executions," is Mike Ward's item in today's Austin American-Statesman Capitol Digest.In offering Monday's prayer in the House, the Rev. [read post]
9 Nov 2008, 4:34 pm
According to Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Twenty-three jobs have been eliminated at the Texas Youth Commission's Austin headquarters and 12 other positions will be frozen to save $1.7 million, officials said late this afternoon. [read post]
