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3 Mar 2009, 11:44 pm
I don't quite know what to make of a report from Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman that legislators are worried TYC's cost per youth is too high and want them to make cuts. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 5:00 am
Commitee assignments haven't been made yet in the Texas House, but the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reported yesterday that under a new, proposed committee structure contemplated in proposed House rules:the House Corrections committee would lose its authority over the Youth Commission. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 5:46 am
In the Austin Statesman today ("Texas Youth Commission investigates leaks") Mike Ward reports on an inquiry into who released information about the troubled agency to Ward for a previous story.TYC Public Information Officer Jim Hurley contacted me before I'd even noticed the piece! [read post]
25 May 2007, 8:34 am
I already mentioned that Mike Ward reported today on the Statesman's blog that new prison building in Texas would come with "strings" attached that would keep them from being built if incarceration growth didn't require it.Now I'm hearing a wave of rumors that the Rider, which contained the "strings" Ward referenced, isn't in the final budget, though NOBODY will admit to having seen a final copy yet. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 10:29 am
Mike Ward posts, "Selwyn Davis dies while on death row," at the Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 4:43 am
A piece by KTVB titled Failed congressional candidate dogged by new allegation of plagiarism provides an unintentionally humorous look at plagiarism in politics, and yes it does contain the line Ward parrots what Democrat John Kerry believesOn a more serious side, the text:Boise State University English professor Mike Markel reviewed the Ward and Obama speeches, at KTVB's request. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 9:39 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:A compromise has emerged in the back-room fight over merging Texas' juvenile-justice agencies â€â [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 4:01 am
Said the blog:What Mike Ward didn't get is input from some of the 300 plus employees assigned there regarding the program. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 7:49 am
A couple of our browsers are warding us off! [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 10:19 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reports that the state prison system's crackdown on cell phones and contraband have continued after a lockdown last fall supposedly began an era of "zero tolerance" ("Cell phone smuggling continues," Jan. 26):More than 200 cell phones have been confiscated in state prison cellblocks since a system-wide shakedown for contraband ended in November, almost twice as many as were seized during the lockdown. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 10:50 pm
Yesterday morning in Lubbock, someone rushed up to me, PDA in hand, to share a story from the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward that any regular Grits reader should have seen coming ("Youth prisons halt overtime, Oct. 30"):In its latest official stumble, the Texas Youth Commission spent more than half of its yearly budget for overtime payments in just one month, and it will temporarily stop paying overtime to its 2,200 guards. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 8:44 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:As the former superintendent of the Giddings State School claimed in a lawsuit that he was fired in March for reporting violations of state law and growing safety issues at the troubled lockup, a legislative inquiry was expanded Wednesday to focus on whether 5-year-old reforms to the troubled system are still working. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 1:24 pm
Mike Ward has this story in the Austin Statesman on a report at the National Conference of State Legislatures citing studies by the notoriously left-leaning MacArthur Foundation.The science simply does not support the proposed rules of law for which it is usually cited: blanket rules exempting young offenders from particular punishments, with chronological age alone trumping all other considerations. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:Four years ago, state officials heralded the gift of a red brick hospital in a residential neighborhood, unveiling plans to convert the onetime Veterans Affairs center into a prison hospital for women.Today, after funding for the project evaporated, the six-story building remains vacant. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:35 am
An article by Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman today ("Cell phones hard to find on death row," Nov. 23) makes me fear Texas prison administrators haven't learned the right lessons from the recent rash of contraband discoveries (particularly cell phones) on death row:"A year ago, we were amazed to find an inmate with both a cell phone and a charger up there," John Moriarty, the state prison system's inspector general, said Thursday. [read post]
19 May 2009, 11:34 pm
The Statesman's Mike Ward has a couple of budget updates that will interest Grits readers:Prison guards get 3.5% raiseTwo TYC lockups on closure list, againBoth these are half-a-loaf solutions. [read post]
22 May 2009, 8:13 am
"Veto threat dooms change in death penalty law," is Mike Ward's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.Death penalty opponents have long decried a Texas law that allows the state to impose the ultimate punishment â€â [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 5:55 am
Mike Ward has, "Perry spares life of getaway driver," in the Austin American-Statesman.oster's impending execution had drawn a flood of protests from as far away as Europe, with former South African peace activist Desmond Tutu and former President Carter among the hundreds who had filed written protests to stop the execution â€â [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 12:50 am
In yet another effort to combat contraband smuggling, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice instituted a lockdown yesterday at 14 maximum security units, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:More than 35,000 convicts at 14 of Texas' toughest prisons have been placed on lockdown status in a new crackdown on contraband smuggling â€â [read post]
25 May 2007, 5:30 am
Mike Ward has an update on the status of new prisons in the yet-to-be-revealed state budget in the Austin Statesman's Postcards from the Lege blog:Building the new prisons will come with strings. [read post]
