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8 Nov 2007, 10:45 pm
Driving the shift will be the new law eliminating misdemeanants from admission to TYC, and new rules moving most kids back to their home communities on parole much quicker than in the past.House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden's statement about the Sheffield Unit really sums up the Legislature's approach this year to all of TYC: "if they don't have enough staff to cover shifts, they did the right thing in reducing the youth population," he said. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 7:21 am
During an aside, Whitmire wondered to Chair Jerry Madden,while waiting for a witness to arrive, "Can you imagine [a psychiatrist] having a paranoid person and telling them, 'Talk to the TV screen! [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
House Corrections Chairman Jerry "Madden said that though vendors and their lobbyists have been pressing in recent weeks for privatization to be considered as an option," though he also added, "I don't know that there's any great move in the Legislature to see things redone. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 7:52 am
On Corrections, Jerry Madden earned a national reputation as a co-author with Sen. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 5:03 am
Jerry Madden, who was at the meeting as one of the architects of corrections reform in his state. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 12:34 pm
While I agree some of Lykos' critics don't have the purest of motives, so long as she won't acknowledge the problem with flawed forensics in the BAT vans, unfortunately she plays right into her critics hands.Jerry Madden's primary opponentsHouse Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, who has authored numerous nationally recognized criminal-justice reform packages, faces two serious challengers in his GOP primary. [read post]
26 Apr 2013, 8:18 am
He was based close to Austin, had legislative experience (including at one point two decades ago as a staffer to Senate Criminal Justice Chairman John Whtimire) and for several sessions he had the Governor's ear, getting Perry to veto Jerry Madden and Whitmire's probation reforms in 2005 and throwing his weight around on the Texas Forensic Science Commission. [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 7:50 am
Jerry Madden. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 11:26 am
After GOP House Corrections Committee Chairmen Ray Allen and Jerry Madden, consecutively, passed reform legislation to reduce incarceration rates, both were challenged by opponents who tried to label them soft on crime because of reform bills they passed, but both were able to win reelection. [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 7:58 am
While other recent studies hint that rate has fallen slightly, Texas is still among the lowest.Texas once had a recidivism rate of more than 55 percent.House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, a Richardson Republican who was an architect of the reforms, said the study confirms what Texas numbers have shown is a downward trend. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:09 am
Jerry Madden pointed out that TDCJ is a criminal justice agency that's fully capable of taking fingerprints or performing other tasks, and said there was no reason two state agencies couldn't figure out how to delegate those duties through the memorandum of understanding required by law. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
Jerry Madden's aggressive treatment package, but also supported issuing nearly a quarter billion in bonds to build three new prison units, and boosted the budget for more contract beds.As yesterday's debate made clear, though, the estimate of a 17,000 bed shortfall includes many assumptions, most importantly that no treatment or diversion programs will be created and that parole rates remain at their historic lows. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 7:37 am
Congratulations to Jerry Madden, who resumes his former leadership role as Chair of Corrections, Pete Gallego, who remains Chairman of Criminal Jurisprudence (though presiding over a committee with a lot of new faces), and Sid Miller, who replaces Joe Driver as head of what's now the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 7:39 am
Jerry Madden, R-Plano. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 9:53 am
Jerry Madden, chairman of the House Corrections Committee. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 11:09 am
That's a pretty amazing difference, particularly since Texas' crime rates have been declining for more than a decade, though tagging along behind more robust national reductions led by New York.Chairmen Jerry Madden and John Whitmire have deservedly received a lot of credit for baby steps the state has taken to inch back away from the mass-incarceration abyss (particularly when the bipartisan consensus of the day would otherwise have been to dive off the edge like… [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 5:33 am
The panelists were: * The Honorable Jerry Madden — Vice Chairman, Texas House Corrections Committee * Michele Deitch — Adjunct Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs * Harvey Hetzel — Chief Juvenile Probation Officer, Harris County * Vicki Spriggs — Executive Director, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission [read post]
30 May 2007, 6:14 am
Jerry Madden's HB 2391 (discussed by Grits here) would give police officers more discretion how to handle low-level non-violent midsdemeanor offenders.Deputy McKnight suggested this reform last fall in a letter to Grits, and its legislative embodiment, HB 2391, was the most important bill passed by the 80th Texas Legislature to assist counties facing jail overcrowding crises, which is quite a few of them. [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 4:04 am
The Governor's new conservator opposes the idea, and House Corrections Chair Jerry Madden told Ward he does not favor "shutting anything down or drastically changing anything until we know what we're replacing it with. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 9:42 am
More than 500 cases will be revisited now by the Office of Inspector General, so ultimately the OIO report has identified - and the agency has agreed to implement - a way for TYC to work itself out of the dilemma created by lapsed investigations.From a global perspective, I tend to agree with House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden who told me last week that while he thought the Ombudsman's findings were significant, the situation now seemed to be under control. [read post]
