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21 Apr 2015, 2:31 pm by Guest Blogger
The 57-bed hospital grew during his tenure to a 1,000-bed treatment center. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 7:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"No room at the inn for civil commitment offendersAs the state struggles to find housing for civilly committed sex offenders, the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee prepares to hear legislation on Tuesday, elaborated in detail by guest blogger Nancy Bunin in this Grits post, to revamp the program. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 8:28 am
  Amy: I’ve worked as a civil rights attorney and criminal justice reform advocate for many years, so I knew about the terrible problem of solitary confinement in our nation’s prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers. [read post]
Yet all the while they're patting themselves on the back for advancing the types of laws that forced most Texas abortion clinics to close. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 7:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See related recent coverage from The Atlantic.A primer on approved interrogation tactics at Dallas PD Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth has a long-form piece based on the civil suit by Olivia Lord, a Dallas woman who was falsely accused by police of her husband's death (he committed suicide, see prior Grits coverage) and subjected to bullying interrogation tactics by a Dallas detective who moonlighted for the TV show The First 48. [read post]
Virtually overnight the Department of Homeland Security built two mass family detention centers this summer, with the capacity to detain 1,200 family members. [read post]
And there is no question that becoming a parent has made me even more committed to doing the work that I do. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 10:48 am by Cody Poplin
 The Wall Street Journal quoted Nicholas Rasmussen, deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, saying,”The greatest threat from ISIL to the U.S. and its interests is inside Iraq right now. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 1:57 pm by Matthew A. Reed
 As a child he crossed the border each day to attend Catholic school in Brownsville, Texas, until he and his family relocated to California’s Imperial Valley when he was 14. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 9:03 am by Schachtman
Clearly juries often perform better than individual lay judges as scientific fact finders, but their time commitment is inadequate. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 7:00 am by Bill Marler
The Outbreak and the Audit This outbreak began with Primus’ audit on July 25, 2011, at Jensen Farms, continued to stores that enticed customer loyalty (some now refusing to be responsible for what they sold), and ended in hospitals, morgues and rehab centers across much of the western U.S. [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 10:01 pm by Bill Marler
The Outbreak and the Audit This outbreak began with PrimusLabs’ audit on July 25, 2011, at Jensen Farms, continued to stores that enticed customer loyalty (some now refusing to be responsible for what they sold), and ended in hospitals, morgues and rehab centers across much of the western U.S. [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 5:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
An attorney at the Harris County public defender told the Houston Chronicle that housing civil-commitment offenders in secure lockups is "clearly illegal. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 4:00 am by Steve Vladeck
Indeed, if there was such a commitment, there would have been [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 5:32 pm by INFORRM
Michael then moved to dismiss the lawsuit under chapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. . . . [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 3:38 am
Michael then moved to dismiss the lawsuit underchapter 27 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. . . . [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 6:31 pm by Guest Blogger
Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York v. [read post]
27 Apr 2014, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It probably just needs to be scrapped.As several critics said in the article, the whole "outpatient treatment" model for Texas' civil commitment  program is basically a farce. [read post]