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8 Feb 2007, 5:24 am
UPDATE What does Rissie Owens have to hide? [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 6:27 am
" She did let go, but by then a space opened up for her to squeeze through, and Rissie Owens was gone. [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There was a time when Rissie Owens and her husband Ed were the ultimate Texas prison power couple. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 5:14 pm
I'd ask you, Grits readers, to add to this list of questions that should be asked in writing of the Board of Pardons and Parole Chair Rissie Owens: 1) How many parole applicants have you actually met? [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
Rissie Owens said Monday that Dimitria Pope, the Youth Commission's acting executive director, said she was the final authority on who was to be paroled. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
Rissie Owens said Monday that Dimitria Pope, the Youth Commission's acting executive director, said she was the final authority on who was to be paroled. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:57 am
US District Judge Sam Sparks refused to hold parole board chair Rissie Owens personally liable, as a jury verdict would have him do, for applying sex-offender registration to Texas parolees without even minimalist due process. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 10:02 pm
Jenkins declined to comment, as did his attorneys.It's pretty darn rare, and quite astonishing, for parole board chair Rissie Owens to be held personally liable in such a case - that implies that she was acting outside the legal strictures of her official capacity when she violated the plaintiff's rights. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 4:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Also, "Board of Pardons and Paroles Chairwoman Rissie Owens’ salary will jump from $126,500 to $172,000," for a 36% increase. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 8:03 am
Corrections Committee bills focus on TYC Reflections on a weird day Questioning Rissie Owens Rissie Owens still won't talk Following Rissie Owens [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 5:50 am
Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.Austin, TX 78757Dear Ms. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:48 am
," add that, I guess to the growing list of questions Rissie Owens won't answer. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 10:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If you're qualified, go for it.With former TDCJ Chairman Oliver Bell replaced last summer by Dale Wainwright, Rissie Owens gone, and now Livingston headed out the door, change is wafting in the breeze in Huntsville these days. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 10:41 am
Rissie Owens, ChairTexas Board of Pardons and Paroles8610 Shoal Creek BoulevardAustin, Texas 78757 Re: Jeffrey Wood, TDJC No. 999256 Dear Governor Perry and Chair Owens, Jeffrey Wood is scheduled to be executed on August 21, 2008. [read post]
27 May 2007, 5:39 am
Owens' elevation to czar status.Owens' wife, Rissie is also a Perry appointee - she chairs the state's Board of Pardons and Parole, which places an inordinate amount of authority over the state's corrections system in the hands of this little known power couple.TYC seems to have fallen off the media radar screen for now, but I hope it continues to receive the level of scrutiny afforded it at the height of session, and that the same spotlight is shone on similar… [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 8:08 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward brings word ("Court cases forcing change at parole agency," Aug. 31) of a recent clash between US District Judge Sam Sparks and an attorney from the Board of Pardons and Parole:U.S. [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 8:40 am by Walter Reaves
Thanks to Scott Benson at Grits for Breakfast for letting us know about the decision holding the head of the Texas Parole Board - Rissie Owens - personally liable for violating an inmates rights. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 2:32 pm
For whatever reason, probably because my recent Rissie Owens Watch (she's the chair of the state board of pardons and parole, see here, here, and here) I've received quite a few private emails recently asking advice about a relative's particular parole case. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 2:14 am
Dear Governor Rick Perry and Parole Board Chair Rissie Owens,I'm writing you this open letter to suggest that you provide clemency to Kenneth Foster, Jr., who is scheduled for execution soon. [read post]