Showing posts with label state jails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label state jails. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Harris County probation department making big improvements, but it's still probation

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As part of reforms implemented with its MacArthur grant, Harris County consolidated all of its state jail cases into one district-court dock...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Modifying 3-strikes theft enhancement would ↓ TX state-jail population

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On Monday, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee will hear a good little decarceration bill modifying the enhancement for misdem...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Schaefer: What's the point of state jail felonies?

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At the Texas House Corrections Committee hearing this morning, meeting jointly with the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, Rep. Matt Schaefe...
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Saturday, December 05, 2015

Implementing Texas' new diligent-participation credit law

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See an " implementation guide " from the Smart on Crime Coalition for a new bill, HB 1546 (Allen/Rodriguez), which "gives ju...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Bill to reduce recidivism, increase state-jail felon program participation would save state $227.7 million

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The Texas House last week approved a nice little bill by Rep. Alma Allen, HB 1546 , which would save the state $227.7 million over the next ...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Ring the bell for property threshold adjustments

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Sometimes, an unrung bell resonates the loudest. Such was the case last night when the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee heard state...
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Monday, December 15, 2014

I Can't Breathe, South Texas style, and other stories

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Here's a browser clearing compendium of items  that merit Grits readers' attention even though I haven't had time to adumbrate t...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Perry vetoes empower prosecutors, except for one Travis County drunk Democrat

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Just a couple of criminal-justice related vetoes on Governor Rick Perry's 2013 list , but they were both significant. Perry vetoes onl...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Sentencing policy, cell-privacy: Good criminal justice bills waiting for House floor vote

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A pair bills voted out of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee recently would begin to adjust drug laws in deference to pragmatic real...
Friday, March 01, 2013

'Death at Dawson: Why is Texas' worst state jail still open?'

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Emily DePrang at the Texas Observer says the question shouldn't be whether the Dawson State Jail in Dallas should be closed, but why in...
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Bill offers strong, positive incentive to succeed on probation

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For the most part, criminal law is based on a theory of negative incentives - do "X" and the state will punish you. Seldom do legi...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Texas 'state jails' strayed far from their original purpose

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State jails have deviated far from their original purposes, reported Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman (" State jails struggle with lac...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Reforming state jails, prosecution as grant management, and other stories

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Just a few odds and ends that didn't make it into their own, individual posts: Narcotics task force cops robbed drug dealers instead o...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advocates on right, left, say reform state jail statutes, close more prison units

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A pair of stories from the Texas Tribune related to de-incarceration merit Grits readers' attention. First up, yesterday Maurice Chammah...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"How-to" guides detail new reform legislation aimed at de-incarceration

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In an email announcement today, the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition links to three new "how to" briefs for practitioners on impl...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Raising theft categories to account for inflation generates state-jail savings

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State Rep. Ruth Jones McLendon has HB 2326 up in tomorrow's House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee that would significantly reduce the ...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

Privatizing state jails no budget panacea

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One of the amendments proposed to the House budget that's up today would mandate privatization of all Texas state jails. However, accord...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Media discussion on eliminating state jails lacks nuance

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Coupla more stories on the possibility of revamping state jails to become more like intermediate sanctions facilities for probationers inste...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010

State Jail creators: 'Don't kill our baby'

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Mike Ward at the Statesman today has an article titled " Lawmakers might scrap or revamp state jail system " which relates a devel...
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