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23 May 2007, 1:30 am
This bill was on the House calendar yesterday but they did not make it that far down the list.Parole Reform: HB 838 by Whitmire also died yesterday waiting to be heard on the House calendar - this bill would have reduced technical revocations to prison and increased use of intermediate sanctions facilities.Innocence Bills: The House also didn't get to a bill expanding compensation for wrongfully convicted people, which I'd hoped could be amended to include the Innocence Commission… [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 2:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But the Texas Observer quoted a spokesman for Black Lives Matter: Houston who dubbed the proposal victim blaming: “It’s an insult. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 6:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire called on police departments to make law-enforcement pursuit policies public. [read post]
24 Feb 2018, 5:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire filed a complaint with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct against Harris County's magistrate judges, they defended themselves by saying the elected judges directed them to deny personal bonds, which the judges themselves at first denied. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 7:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Due process is still a guaranteed, constitutional right, though, even if as a practical matter it's become a pretense in most of the millions of Class C traffic cases every year. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 5:02 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
If that remains the goal, then no matter who replaces Madden, basically the same array of policy choices will confront them: either spending potentially billions to build more prisons or plowing forward along the alternative path Madden and Whitmire began to forge. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 3:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire credit for the TYC Sunset legislation he carried last year, and he's 100% right about that. [read post]
31 Jul 2011, 2:54 pm by Mark Bennett
" In June of last year the Texas Supreme Court ruled in In the Matter of B.W. that a child cannot be prosecuted for prostitution. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Whitmire should be thankful that the inmate who notoriously contacted him by phone in 2008 didn't send him sexting photos! [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 1:36 am
" But as a practical matter, the bigger issues for the state are working conditions for staff and medical costs. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 9:52 am
"But it's a matter or prioritizing resources. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 7:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Indeed, nearly every cut proposed by the agency - to probation, to parole, to treatment, to mental health - seems targeted not to best serve the public interest but to maximize the future inflow of prisoners to ensure that all 112 Texas prison units remain full, no matter what. [read post]
7 May 2019, 9:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
They know they have to run to the center to win a general-election contest, and most of them think this hill isn't worth dying on.For that matter, the state GOP party platform endorsed reducing marijuana penalties to a civil infraction with a maximum $100 fine. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 8:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire has reportedly agreed to sponsor it in the Senate.The new offense would be a Class C misdemeanor for possessing such photos and a Class B misdemeanor for displaying or distributing them. [read post]
27 Aug 2017, 6:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire to allow the Tulia drug sting defendants to get out on bail while they waited for their habeas corpus writs to clear the Court of Criminal Appeals. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 11:45 am
As such, perhaps this will be a chance to pay for long-needed infrastructure that can both service kids on probation and new kids coming back early from TYC.No matter what, if counties are to have more responsibility, they need more control. [read post]