Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Governor hopes pro-police push will distract from COVID failures

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The Governor today held a press conference calling for a half-dozen new laws aimed at increasing penalties for protester violence and peopl...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

COVID deadlier in Texas prisons than jails

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Grits must give credit where it's due: County jails in Texas have done an impressive job, relatively speaking, of containing the coronav...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Reasonably Suspicious podcast back from hiatus: Austin police chief under fire, COVID in TX prisons and jails, Harris DA calls to overturn shady drug convictions, and other stories

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After a three-month hiatus while your correspondent underwent throat-cancer treatment, here's the May 2020 episode of Just Liberty's...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Blakinger scores big victory for hungry TDCJ inmates, visitation denied, why people convicted of unconstitutional statutes are innocent, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention: TDCJ to improve lockdown food The Marshall Project's Keri...
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Friday, May 15, 2020

Fifth Circuit still sucks on prison-conditions litigation: Coronavirus edition

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The US Supreme Court has declined to vacate a stay by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals of an injunction granted to Texas prison inmates fro...
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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 28, 2020

Number of Texas jail inmates with COVID rose 187% in 8 days

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Governor Abbott may want to open the economy back up, but in county jails, the problem is only getting worse. The number of Texas county j...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Judges may do what they please after Tx Supreme Court says Abbott executive order unenforceable

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The Supreme Court's ruling on Greg Abbott's executive order was fascinating to me. They upheld the executive order, but their reason...
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Roundup of Texas headlines on COVID in prisons and jails

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Several, notable headlines drew Grits' attention related to the coronavirus and Texas prisons and jails. Let's round them up. Texa...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Snapshot of coronavirus in Texas county jails

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Today, as Grits catches up on all that's happened while I've been under the weather, I decided to check in on the extent of coronavi...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Harris County DA: Judges cannot consider health issues as part of pretrial release decisions.

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We're still waiting for the Supreme Court of Texas to rule whether Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on COVID-related jail rele...
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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Judge ruled Abbott exceeded his authority on executive order limiting personal bonds, but the fight's not over

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UPDATE : The Supreme Court of Texas on Saturday issued a temporary stay on Judge Livingston's Temporary Restraining Order, meaning Abbo...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Litigation challenges Abbott's executive order on COVID-19 jail releases

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The Texas Fair Defense Project, ACLU of Texas, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Governor Greg Abbott over his execu...
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Monday, April 06, 2020

Coronavirus and Texas jails

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Despite his protestations to the contrary, to this observer, Governor Abbott's emergency executive order regarding jail releases seems ...
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