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17 Mar 2012, 7:05 am
Hevesi, the former New York state comptroller, at the Lincoln Correctional Facility. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 6:59 am
It is very hard to go to prison on a marijuana charge, especially a low-level possession charge. 4 The court data I use to look at this issue is primarily National Center on State Court’s annual tabulation of total felony filings in state court. [read post]
3 May 2022, 8:47 am
Becker (Queen's University Belfast) has posted Racial Bias and Prison Discipline: A Study of North Carolina State Prisons (North Carolina Central University Law Review 2022) on SSRN. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 8:15 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported Friday evening ("Over a year after closure, state prison still runs some operations," Jan. 18) that, despite de-funding in the last budget, TDCJ's Central Unit in Sugar Land is not yet fully closed, though the prisoners there were moved to other units. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
The Dawson state jail in Dallas stood in the way of the city's Trinity River Redevelopment, while the Central Unit near Sugarland sat between a business park and the regional airport, with the local chamber of commerce supporting its closure. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 8:22 am
More detail from Mike Ward at the Statesman on what's apparently a chronic problems with prisonsers walking off the Central Unit in Sugarland to shop at a nearby Walmart (you can't make this stuff up):Prison officials never knew he was gone.And after they were tipped to the late-night trip, officials confirmed Monday, they had to verify the escape by viewing the store's surveillance camera system — which was much better than the one the prison… [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm
Prison cotton fields and livestock sheds now sit alongside for-sale signs along Texas 99 that bisects the former prison farms.Officials note that Texas is perhaps the only state in the country now with hundreds of empty prison bunks and the possibility of having even more in the future, if trends hold.Even so, House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, said that the future of nearby prisons is secure for now. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 11:40 pm
" Central is one of five prisons within a 5-square-mile area, part of what was once two plantations totaling 7,800 acres that the state purchased beginning in the 1880s. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 5:43 pm
The Los Angeles Times reports that a three judge panel has ordered California to release nearly 43,000 prisoners as the state’s prison system is so overcrowded that it is violating inmates' constitutional rights. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 8:46 am
A heat wave covering central Texas is reigniting concerns over the welfare of prisoners incarcerated without climate control. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 6:18 pm
Not only will the state close down the Central Unit in Sugar Land, but it will also shutter three juvenile detention centers. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 7:34 am
At the time it was written, the feasibility study looked at only three options: Closing the prison and opening another in the same county, closing the prison and leasing beds, or closing the prison and building a new facility elsewhere in the state. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am
Central to the argument for prison abolition is the notion that we law teachers mislead our students when we teach our students that the purpose of prisons and jails is to effect retribution, rehabilitation, incapacitation, and deterrence. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 8:25 am
So the budget savings would be both more certain and immediate than closing the century-old, state-run Central Unit. [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 5:34 am
True, I'd like to close many more prisons, but there was a reason the Central Unit was targeted first. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 12:59 pm
Florida’s state prison population is the third largest in the United States, with a higher incarceration rate than any country in Central or South America. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 7:30 am
The DOJ was especially critical of state corrections officials who “demonstrated a clear deliberate indifference to the harm and substantial risk of harm to women prisoners. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 6:54 am
To the extent the state has excess capacity, it makes a lot of sense to eliminate those contracts going forward and absorb the prisoners back into state-owned units.Of course, I still think there are several state-owned facilities that merit closure, but with the exception of the Central Unit in Sugarland (where the Chamber of Commerce crowd wants the unit closed to make way for airport-related development), those decisions would probably generate greater… [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 10:00 pm
Too many people are unjustly caged in United States prisons. [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am
If it's implemented at all aggressively, the state shouldn't need to use new private prison beds authorized as a contingency by the Lege after the Central Unit was closed. [read post]
