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17 Oct 2013, 10:24 am
Since 2013, Texas has actually authorized three prison closings.The leader of these reforms in the Republican-dominated Texas House of Representatives was a conservative named Jerry Madden, and it was Governor Rick Perry who signed the budgets and related legislation into law.3. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 8:58 am
Jerry Brown has proposed spending several hundred million dollars per year for private-prison space while the Legislature wants to fund diversion programs. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, said he proposed the law after consulting with law enforcement officials from across the state because he supports keeping more officers on the street. [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
Madden's HB 2611 expanding medical parole made it out of committee. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 5:40 am
"The state is not in a position to bail them out," said Madden. [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 8:13 am
Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, the author of the law. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:27 pm
Jerry Madden, a conservative and an engineer by training. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 9:35 am
"I have pretty good confidence that some of those things will move forward and would be passed," Madden said. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
" At one point, Whitmire said "most" of the 12,000 women locked up in TDCJ probably don't need to be there.PBS also interviewed outgoing House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden who recalled how, when he was named Chairman in 2005, House Speaker Tom Craddick called him in and said eight words to him that "changed my life": They were, "Don't build new prisons, they cost too much. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 7:55 am
Jerry Madden, the author, a Plano insurance agent. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 9:49 am
That's because, cleverly, the House members involved with Texas' 2007 Jessica's Law - notably Jerry Madden and Dan Gattis along with Rep. [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 1:16 am
This is an example how underestimating fiscal notes contributes to red ink in the state budget.Equally interesting is the fiscal note for SB 78, which is the companion to Jerry Madden's House bill grafted onto HB 8 (Jessica's Law) that's currently headed to the Senate floor. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 10:12 pm
He supports reducing probation lengths for most criminal offenses to five years, and expects legislation to that effect to be introduced at the Texas Legislature in 2009:House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Plano, sponsored a bill to shorten the maximum probation for third-degree and state jail felony theft and narcotics offenses from 10 to five years. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 12:04 pm
The drugs have been approved by the FDA and are not compounded, says Thomas Madden of the Ohio attorney general's office. [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]
13 Jan 2009, 1:55 pm
Integrity Unit members Jerry Madden and Jim McReynolds, both members of the Texas House, expressed interest in working on such legislation in the 81st Texas Legislature, which convened at noon today.Leo added that law enforcement agencies that record the interviews never want to return to days of untaped sessions, but agencies that have not begun taping are extremely reluctant and resistant to try the practice.Leo also cited Tom Sullivan's work persuading law… [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 9:33 am
Jerry Madden and Sen. [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]
28 Feb 2007, 1:20 pm
Dan Gattis, John Smithee, Jerry Madden and others moved to postpone debate until Monday afternoon. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 10:36 pm
Perry and the Legislature have been warned of this growing dilemma for several years, but in 2007 preferred to construct new prisons (that we probably can't staff) instead of addressing the lack of guards at current ones.On Thursday at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's legislative issues seminar, I asked House Corrections Chair Jerry Madden in the public Q&A how they planned to staff new prisons when they're so short on guards now. [read post]
