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17 Dec 2011, 7:02 am by Timothy P. Flynn, Esq.
From time to time, my appellate clients write to me asking questions about the parole process. [read post]
2 Apr 2016, 1:12 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Jermstad says that if he ever faced a choice between prison and probation, he’d skip working with his own department and instead go to prison.With prison and then parole, it’s mostly over. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 2:43 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The 2007 treatment reforms succeeded in reducing technical violations on the parole side, but probation departments and local judges stubbornly persist in revoking probationers for technicals at high rates.The extent of the problem varies department to department, with a handful of probation agencies revoking disproportionately more people.New policies and incentives must be created to reduce technical probation violations since existing… [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Wrote the probation director who forwarded this to me (italics in original), "This doesn’t just cut us; it guts us. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Travis County's increase in revocations surprised me given their department's reputation for reliance on progressive sanctions, etc.. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 4:54 pm by Jamie Markham
The new department includes prisons and probation; juvenile justice will stay in the Department of Public Safety. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 1:36 pm
"  That is, they're in prison, or on probation or parole. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 3:28 pm by Admin
  This may be a local office of the state board of probation and parole, a county probation department, or a private company with a government contract to provide probation services. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 6:24 pm
I have demanded an overhaul of the department's policies and practices to ensure that no judge can irresponsibly use the misguided recommendation of a probation officer to release a repeat sex offender from probation.While that investigation is underway, and until a full report is issued by the Department, I have ordered that under no circumstances will a probation or parole officer or any other individual, department or agency support the… [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 3:46 am by Maxwell Kennerly
The lawsuit brought by her estate alleged: Plaintiffs allege that the United States Probation and Pre-trial Services System failed to supervise and control Littlejohn, as required by his sentence and federal statut [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:23 am
He couldn't tell me offhand how much training the officers get. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 2:34 pm
Texas police have arrested six sex offenders who weren't supposed to be using the internet under the terms of their probation or parole, but who allegedly surfaced in MySpace's database search. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 6:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Looking outside Texas' borders for just a moment, let me point out a couple of notable stories from other states on the usually sleepy subject of community supervision.An investigative report from the Boston Globe on the Massachusetts probation department found cronyism in hiring, dramatically inflated caseloads aimed at boosting state allocations, and a GPS monitoring program that was expensive and failed at most of its fundamental goals. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Especially on revocation policies, the board embraced reform more than most local probation departments, which did not see revocation rates decline nearly as much as on the parole side, though they were given basically the same tools to accomplish the task.I spoke briefly this morning with Bill Habern, an attorney based in Huntsville who has practiced in front of the parole board for four decades. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 6:57 am
According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, about 90 percent of paroled sex offenders have Condition X imposed on them. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:23 am
Aug. 30, 2007Parole board votes to spare condemned killerBy MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated PressHUNTSVILLE, Texas - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommendedThursday that Gov. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 12:19 am
Like Grits, my friends over at the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition are tracking key legislation this session related to overincarceration, probation, parole, re-entry and indigent defense. [read post]