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13 May 2016, 9:18 am
"Texas school finance system is legal, Supreme Court rules": Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has this report. [read post]
7 May 2012, 1:54 pm
This news should come as no surprise to Grits readers, but Mike Ward reported in Friday's Austin Statesman ("Report: Texas prison health costs higher than thought," May 6) that:The cost of providing health care to Texas' 154,000 imprisoned criminals during the next two years will likely exceed the amounts allocated in both the Senate- and House-approved versions of the state budget, a new financial analysis shows.The report on the University of Texas Medical… [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm
With the Central Unit in Sugar Land closing, an event driven as much by local development demands as prison policy, Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman indulges in speculation on what other units might find themselves on the chopping block in the future:Nearby, a new high school and homes have popped up near the Jester I Unit. [read post]
29 May 2010, 8:57 am
Reports the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward:According to Friday's directive, the only exceptions listed in the letter are for school funding, for debt service on bonds, to "maintain benefits and eligibility in Medicaid" programs, the Children's Health Insurance Program and foster care programs , to maintain health and human services eligibility staffing and to keep the state pension and benefits programs properly funded.That list does not include public safety… [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]
20 May 2010, 7:47 am
That's what Michael King writes in the current issue of the Austin Chronicle, "Point Austin: Let David Live. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 8:00 am
" And:Travis County prosecutors last month asked state District Judge Mike Lynch to set an execution date for Powell in October. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 6:40 am
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the UT Medical Branch in Galveston last week agreed to a temporary extension of their contract for nine more months, with the state pledging an additional $45 million over that period, reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman (Dec. 2):Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat whose committee oversees prison operations, said the $45 million in additional funding will be advanced from the state's… [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 8:36 am
Reports the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward ("Lawmaker livid over reports of coercion, extortion at Giddings youth lockup," April 17):Two legislative architects of Texas' sweeping reforms in juvenile justice after a sex-abuse scandal five years are fuming over a new report that questions security and safety at the Giddings State School.The report includes allegations that youths are being "bought and owned" by other youths for cigarettes, illicit… [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 8:08 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward brings word ("Court cases forcing change at parole agency," Aug. 31) of a recent clash between US District Judge Sam Sparks and an attorney from the Board of Pardons and Parole:U.S. [read post]
13 May 2010, 4:27 am
Here's a startling punch in the gut for state budget writers and prison managers, as reported by Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison health care could be cut with budget," May 13):An early casualty of impending state budget cuts could be the health care contract that serves most of Texas' 154,000 prison convicts.Top officials at the University of Texas System, whose Galveston medical branch provides the health services, are threatening to cancel the… [read post]
13 May 2010, 4:59 am
Interim budget cuts for state agencies including the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will be released tomorrow, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Prison health care could be cut with budget," May 13):state agencies are awaiting word on just how much they will have to cut from their current budgets to make up for expected shortfalls this year — around $1.7 billion in reductions that are expected to be unveiled Friday. ...Prison officials reportedly… [read post]
23 May 2007, 10:13 am
The Cap Times reports:The victim, Austin David Bodahl, 23, of Waconia, Minn., was pronounced dead early this morning at UW Hospital.Daniel A. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 1:24 pm
Williamson County Justice System under Scrutiny by State Bar of Texas By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair Since our last post about the tragic case of Michael Morton, the “prosecutor of the year” in that case, now District Judge Ken Anderson, and his cohort, Mike Davis, who actually prosecuted Morton for the 1986 murder of his wife, face investigations by the State Bar of Texas and Morton’s attorneys, according to the Austin… [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:"I think several hundred would be a good start, as soon as they can," said state Rep. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 4:01 am
Over at The Back Gate, a blog run by TDCJ corrections officers, staff at the Clemens unit have many critiques of the Youthful Offender Program - which houses Texas youth certified as adults - that didn't show up in Mike Ward's recent Austin Statesman article promoting adult correction models for juvenile offenders. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 7:49 am
Luckily, at least some in the Austin press corps - notably Jolie McCullough at the Texas Tribune and Mike Clark Madison at the Austin Chronicle - are learning not to take the bait.It's all just so silly. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 12:19 pm
Austin reformers face Boomer BacklashSince Grits hasn't been shy about criticizing Austin journalists who fail to cover the real storylines happening all around them when it comes to criminal-justice reform, I should take a moment to offer thanks and approbation to Mike Clark-Madison at the Austin Chronicle for his coverage of the new group, Voices of Austin, which has been excellent. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 7:37 am
"Texas has lethal drugs on hand to execute 39 condemned criminals," is the title of Mike Ward's report in the Saturday edition of the Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
13 Jan 2024, 8:40 am
Mike Mullen, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. [read post]
