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13 Apr 2013, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Four Price wants to amend the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Sunset bill to require data sharing architecture between TDCJ, the parole board, the Windham School District and correctional managed healthcare, contending that "The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing." [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 1:08 pm
But the chairman of the committee said he did not think there would be any official inquiry. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 10:25 am by CJLF Staff
Napa Valley County Board of Supervisors Chairman Keith Caldwell says one possibility is housing county jail inmates at fire camps with counties paying $46.19 per day per inmate, although it would cost counties less ($8 - $10 per day) for electronic monitoring or home detention.CA Death Sentence Reversed, Conviction Upheld: Howard Mintz of Mercury News reports the CA Supreme Court unanimously reversed the death sentence in the 1987 case of Santa Clara double murderer Miguel… [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:00 am by Anita Davies
The Parole Board has recommended release but successive governments have rejected its advice. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There are seven risk categories to which potential parolees are assigned, and it's the lowest risk parolees who are being released at below-guideline rates, i.e., the lowest-risk offenders are the ones the parole board is holding onto longer than the guidelines suggest, a situation that's been happening as long as I've paid attention to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 7:30 am
Even if Chairmans Madden and Whitmire successfully strengthen the probation system and rein in the out of control parole board, Texas' prison population will continue to burst at the seams if the Lege keeps indulging in its biennial ritual of boosting criminal penalties.Today the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee will hear a handful of good bills along with a number of additional penalty enhancements and nickel and dime punitive restrictions on offenders. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 8:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At least this session the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee was somewhat more immune to that dynamic, though obviously not completely.Grits' Nominations coverage a death knellI never planned it this way but in each of the last three sessions, this blog has directly contributed to the Senate's rejection of at least one Governor's nominee: Shanda Perkins for the parole board in 2009, John Bradley at the Forensic Science Commission in 2011, and this year, it was Annette Raggette for… [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm by John K. Ross
Stripped of his ability to prescribe narcotics by the Arkansas State Medical Board, doctor places grenade near then-chairman of the board's vehicle. [read post]
10 May 2011, 6:45 pm by Lovechilde
By the end of the convention, the resolution had been referred with strong support to the Executive Board and many members of the Party’s leadership agreed to urge the Governor to finish the job he started and save a full $1 billion. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 10:36 am
However, the newly proposed changes do conform with many of the other recommendations that the state's own experts - the California Sex Offender Management Board - have made for years. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 11:45 pm
Medellín has asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for an eight-month reprieve. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:16 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the Legislative Budget Boards's latest recidivism report (pdf, p. 40), three-year reincarceration rates for released prisoners broke out by age as follows:25-29: 26.9%30-34: 24.6%35-39: 24.6%40-44: 24.2%45+: 17.6%So for my money, the best budgetary and public-safety bang for the buck comes from releasing older offenders who also cost the state the most in healthcare services.Do I think the parole board will do that? [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 5:36 am
If not, other options, including various legislative models or possibly constitutional change, to be examined and considered.A separate dissent on this topic from the Chairman is attached to the Report.4. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 2:51 am
And they expanded in-prison treatment, reducing long waiting lists so drug and DWI offenders could become eligible for parole more quickly. [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 5:19 am
The chairman of the committee told _____ the only way to make those changes would be through legislative action, and suggested he find lawmakers in the House and Senate to support him. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 3:50 am by Russ Bensing
  I don’t know what’s worse; that or the fact that he’s also the chairman of the state Crime Victim’s Rights Board. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 7:58 am
” The report was sent to Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles with Willingham's appeal for clemency. [read post]