Showing posts with label civil commitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil commitment. Show all posts
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Why Texas' civil commitment program was found unconstitutional

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After Nancy Bunin did such a great job of analyzing Texas' sex-offender civil commitment legislation this spring, I asked her to author...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Texas' civil-commitment program still flailing; violating its conditions no longer a crime

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Despite all the changes to Texas' sex-offender civil commitment process this spring, most of which were necessary to comply with variou...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

No room at the inn: Proposed Lege reforms won't solve civil-commitment housing SNAFU

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The crisis over Texas' dysfunctional sex offender civil commitment program deepened this week, reported the Houston Chronicle's Mike...
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Sunday, April 05, 2015

On 'Cops in Lab Coats,' the pitfalls of basing police practices on Jonah Hill, Wallace Jefferson for SCOTUS(?) and other stories

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Before the day's family festivities begin, here are a few items which deserve Grits readers' attention but haven't made it into ...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Analyzing legislation to reform Texas sex-offender civil commitment program.

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When Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire filed SB 746 revamping Texas' civil commitment program aimed at sexually ...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Sex offenders charged with phony crimes to clear space on supervision rolls

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Last weekend the Houston Chronicle published a followup story (Feb. 15) on the Office of Violent Sex Offender Management and Texas' dys...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Hits keep on coming for TX civil commitment program

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Between a new state audit generating unfavorable stories like these: Houston Chronicle: Scathing audit paints sex offender agency in di...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Recusals of civil-commitment judge call process into question

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The lone Texas judge in charge of "civil commitment" of sex offenders has been removed from eight cases recently over prejudicial ...
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Sunday, July 06, 2014

Crime lab misconduct, sex-offender residency, parole successses, and other stories

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Hope you enjoyed a Happy Independence Day, Grits readers. Here are several items that didn't make it into independent posts last week b...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Catch 22 on civil commitment housing: 'Outpatient treatment' a cruel farce

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There have recently been a spate of stories about housing for "civilly committed" sex offenders, people who've completed t...
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