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28 Jun 2011, 5:35 am
Jerry Madden (Plano), Rep. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 5:02 am
Jerry Madden to HB 1 that would allow up to 480 minutes per month, up from 240.The 240-minute cap was expected to raise $7.5 million for the Compensation to Victims of Crime Fund, but only managed to bring in $5 million. [read post]
24 May 2011, 6:34 am
Jerry Madden, R-Plano. [read post]
22 May 2011, 9:37 am
Jerry Madden have "promoted similar reforms in the adult criminal justice system," but the adult-side reforms haven't been nearly as sweeping as among juveniles, where the youth prison population has declined an astonishing 72% since 2006 while juvenile crime steadily declined. [read post]
20 May 2011, 8:01 am
Jerry Madden - who were pushing the idea.OTOH, Grits would be the first to concede there are strong arguments for the merger on efficiency grounds, particularly given TYC's massive recent downsizing. [read post]
18 May 2011, 6:17 am
Jerry] Madden said budget writers agreed to leave them open and to set aside about $15 million for prison officials to lease additional beds if needed over the next two years. [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
While other recent studies hint that rate has fallen slightly, Texas is still among the lowest.Texas once had a recidivism rate of more than 55 percent.House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, a Richardson Republican who was an architect of the reforms, said the study confirms what Texas numbers have shown is a downward trend. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 11:09 am
That's a pretty amazing difference, particularly since Texas' crime rates have been declining for more than a decade, though tagging along behind more robust national reductions led by New York.Chairmen Jerry Madden and John Whitmire have deservedly received a lot of credit for baby steps the state has taken to inch back away from the mass-incarceration abyss (particularly when the bipartisan consensus of the day would otherwise have been to dive off the edge like… [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:31 am
House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden on Wednesday unveiled the committee substitute for his big, omnibus TDCJ bill, HB 3386; see the hearing online here beginning at the 48:30 mark, as well as Mike Ward's coverage in the Austin Statesman. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:29 am
" Chairman Jerry Madden laid out the legislation in Rep. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:39 am
"It's gone — one way or the other," House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Richardson , said. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 5:09 am
Jerry Madden, R-Plano, the chairman of the House Corrections Committee. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
House Corrections Chairman Jerry "Madden said that though vendors and their lobbyists have been pressing in recent weeks for privatization to be considered as an option," though he also added, "I don't know that there's any great move in the Legislature to see things redone. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
We're with House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, who noted, "We don't provide free college tuition for anyone else like this, so with the budget crisis we're facing, why should we for convicted felons? [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 1:23 pm
Jerry Madden, R-Plano, filed a bill last week that would do just that. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 4:48 am
Jerry Madden , R-Richardson, who heads the House Corrections Committee. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm
Jerry Madden (R-Plano), Chairman, House Corrections Committee; Deborah Fowler, Texas Appleseed; Marc Levin, Texas Public Policy Foundation What & Why: Media briefing to discuss pending juvenile justice reform, including Madden’s bill to consolidate the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (HB 1915). [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:03 am
Big hearing on Wednesday on the juvenile justice front: The House Corrections Committee will hear Chairman Jerry Madden's HB 1915, "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to the newly created Texas Juvenile Justice Department and to the functions of the independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:01 pm
Under the measure by House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, the two agencies would be merged into a new Juvenile Justice Department that would oversee programs from probation to incarceration.Here's a link to bill text and other information.I know a lot of folks have assumed that a "merger" would mean that TYC is essentially placed under the Juvenile Probation Commission, but this bill abolishes both governing structures and creates a… [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 12:55 pm
Jerry Madden, R-Plano, chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee, [who] spoke with the chaplains on Wednesday. [read post]
