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16 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman this week reported ("Senators propose removing parole duties from prison agency," Feb. 13) that parole board chair Rissie Owens has been "quietly shopping" a proposal to shift control of parole operations from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
22 Feb 2018, 12:11 pm
But, on Tuesday February 2018, the Texas Parole Board issued its recommendation that inmate Thomas Bartlett Whitaker not be executed. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 4:59 am
"The last number I heard: Only about 10% of those recommended for medical parole are approved by the parole board. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 9:40 am
An attorney forwarded me data related to month-by-month Texas parole rates for various classes of offenders showing a slight nut noticeable overall increase in parole rates - especially for aggravated sex offenders, surprisingly - since the beginning of the fiscal year.By contrast, here are the parole approval rates by offense type for FY 2010 from the parole board's annual report (pdf, p. 20):Violent Aggravated Non-Sexual: 26.22%Violent… [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 5:14 pm
I mentioned last week that Parole Board Chairwoman Rissie Owens, whose husband Ed is the number two man at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, had refused an on-camera interview with reporters at KHOU TV out of Houston, but said she would agree to answer written questions. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 7:23 am
Freeman may have adversely affected the annual parole process for five Texas inmates, prosecutors said Friday.Freeman was tasked with interviewing inmates who were up for release and writing "parole memorandums" to help the board make a decision. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 8:00 am
Huntsville lawyer Bill Habern made his unusual request in a three-page letter to Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 5:02 am
The Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles yesterday unanimously recommended clemency for Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, the first time in a decade the BPP has recommended against a death sentence. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 8:56 am
Alternatively, you can send support letters directly to the parole board. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:57 am
US District Judge Sam Sparks refused to hold parole board chair Rissie Owens personally liable, as a jury verdict would have him do, for applying sex-offender registration to Texas parolees without even minimalist due process. [read post]
17 May 2012, 3:06 am
If this short-term parole trend elongates and the Lege continues to support front-end diversion programs, perhaps in the near future Texas will actually witness a smaller prison population as well. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 10:34 am
A few tidbits on parole stood out from my notes from Wednesday's meeting of the Texas House Corrections Committee on prisoner reentry ...Parole board chair Rissie Owens thanked the committee for additional treatment beds and told them they were responsible for an uptick in parole rates, which is up to 31% this year, she said, and which would be (just barely) the highest rate in recent memory if it's sustained for the rest of the year. [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 5:20 pm
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin decided on May 4, 2011 that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles does not have the power, without first providing due process, to order prisoners who were not convicted of sex offenses to be released on parole under sex offender supervision requirements. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 4:56 pm
The story opens:More than 20 years after Texas limited the responsibilities of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to approving or denying cases not supervising parole officers or parolees a new state report is sparking debate about whether to expand the agency's duties again.Such a change, if approved, would be the biggest shift in Texas' corrections system in decades — and the idea has sparked a turf war between the … [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 11:40 am
Disregarding the jury's verdict, the Texas Parole Board revoked Page's parole. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:35 am
Abbott has replaced Rissie Owens as parole board chair with David Gutierrez, "who has served on the parole board since 2009, served as the sheriff in Lubbock for 11 years and was chairman of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical and Mental Impairments Advisory Board. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution but it happened this month. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 8:31 am
Texas Governor Spares The Life of Death Row Inmate Thomas Whitaker It’s extremely rare for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend a lesser sentence for a death row inmate facing execution but it happened this month. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 12:41 am
This week Jordan Smith at the Austin Chronicle offers up a fine article on failures of the Board of Pardons and Parole to follow its release guidelines, and a pending lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project to seek an end to the cloak of secrecy surrounding parole decisions. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 10:34 am
As covered here and here at StandDown Texas Project, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted today to recommend that Texas Governor Rick Perry commute Kenneth Foster's death sentence to life, and Governor Perry has now announced he has commuted Foster's death sentence. [read post]
