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14 Apr 2022, 10:04 am
Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking to grant Ms. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 12:49 pm
Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking to grant Ms. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 2:57 pm
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Medellin's request for a 240-day reprieve and a request to commute his sentence to life in prison. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 2:16 am
In the wake of Bryan Collier's move from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Division to become deputy director, I found myself wondering more about the Board of Pardons and Parole and the commissioners who make Texas parole decisions. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 3:08 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously rejected a clemency petition from a convicted killer set to die next week for the shooting death of his 19-month-old son.More than 90 clergy members from around the state had signed a letter to Gov. [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 6:46 pm
A couple of notable items from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles' "self evaluation" (pdf) for the Sunset Commission:Regular readers are aware the parole board makes decisions regarding only a fraction of the 70,000+ releases from TDCJ each year. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:13 am
For reasons I've never understood, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles tends to view legislation or court rulings governing their activities as optional and often just refuses to comply. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 10:02 pm
Texas' Board of Pardons and Parole violated the rights of an individual who was required to register as a sex offender as a condition of parole, without so much as a hearing, even though he'd never been convicted of a sex crime, a federal jury found yesterday.Even more surprising, the jury held Parole Board Chair Rissie Owens personally liable, while Judge Sam Sparks fined the state's attorney for prejudicial… [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm
Last year Grits wondered aloud if the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles had created massive civil liability for themselves and the state by continuing to defy the federal judiciary over the application of "Condition X," which is a battery of sex-offender conditions (basically everything except public registration, including residency restrictions, etc.) applied as a condition of parole, even though the parolee has never been convicted… [read post]
3 May 2007, 8:29 am
LINKThe Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has recommended that Gov. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 11:46 am
In 2016, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously ruled in Ex Parte Antonio Sepeda that habeas corpus writs were the "proper remedy" to compel the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to comply with state statutes. [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:48 am
Morris hopes his chances of release will be better there than in Mineral Wells.Only about one in 10 Mineral Wells inmates is any closer to release than inmates elsewhere in the system, estimated Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 3:13 am
While I was out of town last week, federal District Judge Sam Sparks issued an important ruling criticizing the secretive process by which the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole makes decisions about release conditions for sex offenders. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 3:52 am
The decisions were the latest setback for the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and state corrections officials, who have insisted for years that, to ensure public safety, they could impose the stringent conditions on parolees without a due-process hearing . [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 11:24 am
The Dallas News reports ("Fewer seriously ill Texas inmates being released on medical paroles," Feb. 20) that medical parole rates are at their lowest in years and that Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles may approve fewer medical paroles in FY 2012 (they'll hit 33, at the current rate) than at any time in recent memory, despite TDCJ facing prison healthcare costs more than nine figures greater than the… [read post]
16 May 2024, 2:05 pm
” Abbott, who previously vowed to pardon Perry upon the Parole Board’s recommendation, stated upon announcing Perry’s pardon, “Texas has one of the strongest ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney. [read post]
6 Nov 2019, 7:33 am
Here’s a basic overview of the process: The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) creates its particular risk assessment by relying on two primary groups of personal data: Continue reading [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 1:40 pm
In Texas, the governor has the authority to grant clemency (a pardon) upon the written recommendation of a majority of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 4:15 am
“Those decisions come down to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 10:32 am
Rick Perry has granted about one out of every 33 clemency requests received by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles since he took office in 2001. [read post]
