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22 Feb 2008, 6:34 am
Jerry Madden calculates that TYC receives 66 grievances from youth per day, or around 10,000 per year (the average daily inmate population is around 2,400). [read post]
1 May 2007, 5:41 am
Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball), Dan Gattis (R-Georgetown), Aaron Pena (D-Edinburg), Jerry Madden (R-Richardson) and Joe Deshotel (D-Beaumont). [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 12:21 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Jerry Madden (R-Plano), Chairman, House Corrections Committee; Deborah Fowler, Texas Appleseed; Marc Levin, Texas Public Policy Foundation   What & Why: Media briefing to discuss pending juvenile justice reform, including Madden’s bill to consolidate the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (HB 1915). [read post]
28 Dec 2008, 11:20 pm
Jerry Madden in 2005 and 2007 expanding Texas' treatment and prison diversion programs by a whopping $200 million. [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Big hearing on Wednesday on the juvenile justice front: The House Corrections Committee will hear Chairman Jerry Madden's HB 1915, "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to the newly created Texas Juvenile Justice Department and to the functions of the independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 8:51 am
" House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, who has been working for weeks to refine the details of the new initiatives, said thousands of convicts might be successfully kept from returning to prison and thousands more might never break the law to start with. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 11:06 am
Jerry Madden) spearheaded a massive expansion of treatment options and incarceration alternatives last year for prisoners and parolees, a shortage of Transitional Treatment Center (TTC) beds threatens to undermine Texas' expanded programs aimed at mitigating drug addiction.While the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has made progress, the majority of new treatment beds authorized by the Legislature have yet to come online according to information provided to Grits by… [read post]
3 Oct 2007, 12:18 am
Responding yesterday to news of the Coke County private youth prison's closure, the beleaguered House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden said that everyday he wonders about the Texas Youth Commission, "What's next? [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 7:44 am
Jerry Madden's HB 2391 allowing citations for low-level, non-violent misdemeanors? [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 11:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends that may interest Grits readers:Adios, Jerry y Suerte, PeteThere's a nice, exeunt profile of Jerry Madden in the Plano Star-Courier after the House Corrections Chairman announced his retirement from the Legislature. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Only four legislators were there - Chairman Jim McReynolds, Jerry Madden, Marrissa Marquez, and a particularly glum and silent Solomon Ortiz, Jr. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 1:45 pm
One of the CCA "Integrity Unit" members, Texas House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden, posed a question to Justice Project President John Terzano regarding snitches during his presentation yesterday that inspired me to (perhaps rudely?) [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
Legislation by House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden to reduce jail overcrowding that's currently awaiting the Governor's signature was the subject of misrepresentation by its critics in a media report over the weekend. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 9:26 am
Jerry Madden refused to concur in the Senate amendments that included SB 838. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 11:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Jerry Madden, and Adam Gelb from the Pew Center on the States this afternoon, Gelb informed me this morning.Not now, probably not everThough I'm not an attorney, I agree for the most part with Michael Landauer's assessment that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' ruling shutting down Houston Judge Kevin Fine's pretrial hearing on the constitutionality of the death penalty was arguably the right one. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 11:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" He deserves a lot of credit, for sure, along with Jerry Madden, Ray Allen, and a handful of other Texans, plus a few national figures like Pat Nolan and the late Chuck Colson. [read post]