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13 Oct 2008, 10:03 am
Kudos to Texas Commission on Jail Standards chief Adan Munoz for agreeing to add a tab on their main web page with information about how to file complaints with the commission about local jails, something Diana Claitor and the Texas Jail Project had asked them to do during the Sunset Review Process. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 11:35 pm
I thought maybe Diana Claitor at the Texas Jail Project had come out with a new apparel line.Curious, I wheeled my cart around the other direction onto the next aisle to see what was on the back: It was a number for a bail bondsman. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 4:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"We set up these things, but people have to have a will, and they have to be trained to make it important enough to do something with," Claitor said. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 2:03 am by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Dan Claitor calls on own experience to push unanimous juries [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 9:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Our friends Diana Claitor and Rebecca Larsen of the Texas Jail Project have a fine little column in the Waco Tribune Herald today titled "McLennan County jail increasingly mired in abuse. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 5:54 am
TJP in particular has been gathering stories from incarcerated, expectant Moms since last year.Further confirming the practice, Diana Claitor from TJP forwards this example of shackling pregnant women from the Dallas County Jail in the form of a letter from a nurse practitioner complaining about the practice last year. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 1:43 am
Diana Claitor has an article in the Texas Observer about a chaplain at the Cameron County jail banned for advocating on behalf of inmates. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 8:34 am by Vicenç Feliú
It was published by the LSU and Tulane law schools in 1968, and by Claitor's in 1971 and 2008. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 1:26 pm by Steve Hall
Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, which would require that a convict be informed that he can waive rights to appeal a death penalty sentence, Senate Bill 774. [read post]
12 May 2010, 1:18 pm by Steve Hall
Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge.Immediately after the vote, Craft and Wise told each other that this bill was what Bordelon wanted.Craft said at her first meetings with him, Bordelon took “great delight” in sharing details of the crimes he had committed.But over time, Craft said, Bordelon became more religious and more remorseful over the acts he had committed. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 5:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As jailers across Texas and policymakers at the capitol consider new means to prevent jail suicides, our friend Diana Claitor from the Texas Jail Project pointed out to me that new electronic guard check systems are being created for tracking inmate welfare checks by jailers. [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 10:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Some investigators who reviewed "officer-involved" shootings failed to interview witnesses or appeared to disregard statements that conflicted with officers' accounts, records show.In at least three of the five investigative reports, officers reviewing shootings accepted explanations from HPD officers even when forensic evidence such as blood spatter patterns, locations of wounds and HPD communication records appeared to conflict with the shooters' defense of their… [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 6:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I encouraged them to talk to people who deal with TCJS more regularly: in particular Michele Deitch of UT's LBJ School, who is an actual issue-area expert on correctional oversight, and Diana Claitor at the Texas Jail Project, whose group helps jail inmates file grievances. [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 10:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits took time this morning to read through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards' self evaluation created as part of the "Sunset" process, through which the Texas Legislature evaluates agencies' functions every few years. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 12:13 am
11-20-2009 Texas: When a chaplain spoke up about inmates' treatment, she was locked out. [read post]