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27 Jul 2010, 10:15 am
Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis suggested to CNN the broader questions the Commission did not ask: When did the State Fire Marshal start using modern arson science and did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct when it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science had been used to convict hundreds of defendants? [read post]
15 Feb 2013, 12:07 pm
Sylvester Turner has filed the habeas corpus reform bill that Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whtimire filed in the Senate. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 1:01 pm
Board Chairman Richard Dugger, who must make the final decision, said he needed more time to study the request. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm
Changes the law to target only persons that have discharged their prison sentence and stops the civil commitment of persons who have been released on parole.The civil commitment of persons on parole is largely seen as a waste of resources since persons on parole can be required to participate in sex offender treatment, as a condition of parole and a court order is not necessary.5. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 11:50 pm
The state also ordered the parole board to raise its parole rate to an earlier number of 31 percent; the proportion of eligible inmates granted parole had slipped to 26 percent. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
Last year TDCJ recommended that 451 offenders be released because their poor health generated high healthcare costs, but the Board of Pardons and Parole only approved 164 of them. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:30 am
This is interesting; from a press release reprinted in the Huntsville Item:The G4 Faith Based Row, a program launched in the Wynne Unit in Huntsville, received the Governor’s 2010 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award in recognition of its dedication to ministering to offenders incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [last week].The award was presented by Texas Board of Criminal Justice Chairman Oliver Bell, and TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston… [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 6:47 am
" Parole Board chairman James Plousis adds that the Safe Surrender program makes economic sense as well. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 11:59 pm
In an interview Wednesday, Bill Meyer, chairman of PEP and chief financial officer of San Jose, Calif. [read post]
19 May 2009, 5:30 am
Black resigned as Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of Hollinger in late 2003 and early 2004. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 5:36 pm
That law directed the chairman of the parole board, in consultation with the state attorney general, to “establish a program for the continuous, satellite-based monitoring of sex offenders in this state. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 3:30 am
The parole board has balked and largely defied the courts beyond the individual prisoners whose cases they ruled on, leaving the board and thousands of similarly situated parolees in legal limbo. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
Whitmire explained that treatment proposals were designed to facilitate higher parole rates because the parole board refuses to release many nonviolent DWI and drug offenders without treatment. [read post]
24 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm
He did so after the Board of Pardon and Parole had twice recommended by 3-1 votes that he do so.Several members of the board said that they had doubts about the reliability of Jones’s conviction and, according to a New York Times report, his request for clemency had the support of several prominent conservatives including “Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union; Timothy Head, the executive director of the Faith & Freedom… [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 4:35 pm
My conclusion to oppose this law was triggered by obtaining a report on the sentencing, imprisonment, parole regulations and procedures surrounding this case produced by the California Sex Offenders Management Board. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 10:36 pm
"In my judgment, we have thousands of people locked up who don't need to be there," said Whitmire, D-Houston, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 12:56 pm
"It was painfully apparent that many FSC members believe that flawed science was used in the Willingham conviction, but the FSC does not seem interested in looking at the bigger picture: When did the State Fire Marshal start using modern arson science and did the State Fire Marshal commit professional negligence or misconduct when it failed to inform the courts, prosecutors, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and the Governor that flawed arson science had been used to convict… [read post]
13 Oct 2016, 8:26 am
Furthermore, no parol evidence could have been considered since there was no ambiguity. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 8:41 am
Matt Denn, the board chairman, said as the hearing opened that the board would make its recommendation on the clemency request to Markell in writing later this week. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 12:19 pm
If, on election night, the US Senate race at the top of the ticket is competitive, or heaven forbid, Beto pulls an upset, check down the ballot for this race; it may flip, too.Predictions on #cjreform in 2019 #txlegeA panel in Dallas made predictions on #cjreform in the coming Texas legislative session at a gathering at the Belo mansion.Stop revoking people to prison for potOn Twitter, former House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden suggested that Texas stop revoking people being… [read post]
