Showing posts with label Parole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parole. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

#Txlege should use savings from closed prison units to fund needed treatment services

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The Texas Legislative Budge Board has "Recommended funding maintains correctional security operations, with a decrease totaling $148 m...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Texas leaders' budget direction for prison agency makes no sense

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Texas state agencies have been asked to prepare budgets that include 5% cuts in light of reduced tax revenues thanks to the coronavirus and ...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2020

CCA passes on judging forensic hypnosis, paroled but still imprisoned, Ken Paxton's 'lonely and misguided' crusade, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: On the absurdity of keeping 15k already-paroled prisoners in TDCJ...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

'The Peter Parker Problem': With great (judicial) power comes great responsibility

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What does that Spiderman story have to do with judges setting bail? From a psychological perspective, as it turns out, everything! Since...
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Monday, February 03, 2020

Trump Super Bowl ad bolsters red-state #cjreform prospects

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It's a sign of changing times that two Super Bowl ads ran yesterday (worth >$5 million each) related to criminal-justice reform. One ...
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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Meaty January episode of Reasonably Suspicious podcast: Hear federal judge scold Travis County DA; what's the remedy for school principal convicted based on junk science?; why DPS troopers' chase policy is a bad fit for urban policing, and more

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Here's the January 2020 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co-hosted by me and Mandy Marzullo. We have a meaty...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Parole policies the key to substantial prisoner reductions in Texas

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The goal of cutting prison populations by 50 percent has been poo pooed by some as a pipe dream, but for Texas it seems conceivable. As Gr...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Podcast: Texas bail reform litigation, demagoguery on crime in Houston, and Grits' contribution to new TDCJ Hep C litigation

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Here's the September 2019 episode of Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast, co-hosted by Scott Henson and Amanda Marzullo. Sp...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Why revocations from probation and parole make up nearly half of Texas prison admissions and what to do about it

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Two recent reports on supervising people in the community post-conviction deserve Grits readers' attention: From the Texas Public Poli...
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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Do ankle monitors on parolees make anyone safer?

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In response to episodes where two different parolees being supervised by ankle monitors reportedly committed murder, one of them allegedly k...
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Monday, December 04, 2017

CCA: Parole board cannot be made to follow statutes

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What a difference a year makes. In 2016, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously ruled in Ex Parte Antonio Sepeda that habeas corpu...
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Thursday, October 05, 2017

Declines in TX recidivism led by parole success

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Texas' recidivism rates are declining, according to this publication from the Council of State Governments Justice Center. According to...
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Thursday, July 27, 2017

How journalists should (and shouldn't) cover parole, community supervision

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Journalism surrounding parole is mostly myopic, regressive, and unenlightening. Tuff-on-crime demagogues have mastered the art of crowing ov...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

Committee backs boosting programs to prevent recidivism

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The section of the Texas House Corrections Committee interim report to the 84th Legislature on "recidivism" had some good element...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Previewing Texas Lege hearings on #CJReform next week

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Next Monday and Tuesday will be full days at the capitol for criminal-justice reform topics, with three different committees holding hearing...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Texas released 52% more violent offenders in 2014 than 2005

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Texas prisons released 52 percent more prisoners convicted of violent offenses in FY 2014 than in FY 2005 , according to the TDCJ annual st...
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Thursday, March 24, 2016

More on Pam Freeman indictments

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The Houston Press followed up on the Pam Freeman indictment story .
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Five new indictments for former parole commissioner Pamela Freeman

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A reader emails to point out that former parole commissioner Pamela Freeman, who was indicted for record tampering in 2014 has five new fel...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Epilogue to "The Guy With the Knife": Jon Buice was granted parole. Again.

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In a timely epilogue to the screening last week of “The Guy With the Knife” at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, news comes today that the...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Free film screening of "The Guy With the Knife" next Thursday evening

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Those of you living in Texas in 1991 may remember the high profile case of Houston banker Paul Broussard, a gay man, who was killed in the M...
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