TX State Auditor, Best Practices for Applying for an Occupational License After Conviction, 2020 Lisa R. Collier, CPA, CFE, CIDA First Assistant State Auditor August 2020 Report No. 20-327 Applying for an Occupational License After Conviction or Deferred Adjudication Before Applying Flowchart After Applying Flowchart FAQs Exceptions Introduction As required …
Naming and Shaming - Violations of the Human Rights of Transgender Persons With Felonies in TX 2020 Naming and Shaming Violations of the Human Rights of Transgender Persons with Felonies in Texas NOVEMBER 2020 HUMAN RIGHTS CLINIC THE UNIVERSITY of TEXAS SCHOOL of LAW Cover: Khara Woods/Unsplash, Jude Beck/Unsplash This …
TX Criminal Justice Coalition - Misunderstood and Mistreated 2020 ONE SIZE FAILS ALL REPORT SERIES MISUNDERSTOOD AND MISTREATED How Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Experience the Texas Criminal Legal System OCTOBER 2020 One Size Fails All: Misunderstood and Mistreated 1 TEXAS CRIMINAL JusT1cE coAuT10N The Arc. Texas This series …
TX - Dallas County - Securus contract - 2020-2025 RFP NUMBER 2019-064-6828 BETWEEN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS AND SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES LLC This Master Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into by and between the Dallas County, Texas, ("County") a political subdivision of the State of Texas acting by and through the …
Doe v. CoreCivic, Inc, TX, Complaint, Sexual Assault of Detainees, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-01828 Document 1 Filed on 05/27/20 in TXSD Page 1 of 61 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION Jane Doe § § Plaintiff § § vs. § § § CoreCivic, Inc. f/k/a Corrections § …
Doe v. CoreCivic, TX, Complaint, Assault and Rape, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-01828 Document 1 Filed on 05/27/20 in TXSD Page 1 of 61 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION Jane Doe § § Plaintiff § § vs. § § § CoreCivic, Inc. f/k/a Corrections § Corporation of …
Texas Prison Health Care Costs at Record High Despite Population Reduction by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Despite a reduction in the Texas prisoner population, state prisons are spending record amounts on prisoner health care. The reason is not an improvement in the health care afforded prisoners. Pending lawsuits allege …
Prison Postcards: Prisoners Write About Fears, Incompetence, at Their Facilities by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein On April 15, President Donald Trump announced that the coronavirus pandemic had peaked in the United States. That same day, nearly 2,300 people in the country died from COVID-19, the disease cause by the …
Texas AG Opinion That GEO Corporation Is Subject To State Public Records Law KEN rA.t'CTO N ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEX:\S May 01, 2020 Mr. Michael Shaunessy Counsel for Geo Group, Inc. McGinnis & Lochridge 600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100 Austin, Texas 78701 OR2020-12334 Dear Mr. Shaunessy: You ask whether certain …
Letter from TX Attorney General re GEO contracts disclosure, 5-1-20 KEN rA.t'CTO N ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEX:\S May 01, 2020 Mr. Michael Shaunessy Counsel for Geo Group, Inc. McGinnis & Lochridge 600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100 Austin, Texas 78701 OR2020-12334 Dear Mr. Shaunessy: You ask whether certain information is subject …
Valentine et al. v. Collier, et al., TX, preliminary injunction order, relief for vulnerable prisoners exposed to COVID-19, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-01115 Document 40 Filed on 04/16/20 in TXSD Page 1 of 5 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON …
Valentine v. Collier, TX, Prelim Injunction Order, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-01115 Document 40 Filed on 04/16/20 in TXSD Page 1 of 5 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION LADDY CURTIS VALENTINE, et al, Plaintiffs, VS. BRYAN …
Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Prisoner’s Complaint Over Consequences of Prisoner Unrest as Frivolous by On February 20, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s pro se, in forma pauperis federal civil rights complaint primarily over the consequences flowing from a physical …
Fifth Circuit Upholds Qualified Immunity for Guard Pepper-Spraying Prisoner Without Provocation by On February 11, 2020, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prison guard who pepper-sprayed a prisoner “for no reason” was entitled to qualified immunity. Prince McCoy, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prisoner, filed …
Continuing Problems at Texas Jail Roil County’s Relationship with GEO Group by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke As previously reported in PLN, Florida-based GEO Group has had a litany of problems at the jail it operates for Liberty County, Texas. During a rocky 57-day stretch in mid-2019, there were prisoner …
Arizona Prison Water Woes Ease Up by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The water at Douglas Prison, which has over 2,000 of Arizona’s prisoners, had a “noticeable petroleum odor and taste” and “was burning [prisoners’] skin after showers and causing diarrhea” in June 2019, Jimmy Jenkins of KJZZ-FM reported. The …
What’s It Like Inside? Early Snapshots from Prisons During the Coronavirus Pandemic by Ken Silverstein by Ken Silverstein As we are putting together the April issue of PLN, the situation with the novel coronavirus is changing by the hour, if not the minute. In the United States, the number of …
Valentine v. Collier, TX, Class Action Complaint, COVID-19 Release, 2020 Case 4:20-cv-01115 Document 1 Filed on 03/30/20 in TXSD Page 1 of 37 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION LADDY CURTIS VALENTINE and RICHARD ELVIN KING, individually and on behalf of those …
Executive Order GA-13, TX, Bonds, 2020 GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT March 29, 2020 FLED IN ThE OFFE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE S 3° PM:YCLOCK The Honorable Ruth R. Hughs Secretary of State State Capitol Room 1E.8 Austin, Texas 78701 Secretary of State Dear Secretary Hughs: Pursuant to his powers as …
HRDC's Letter Brief re GEO TX - 3-23-20 Thomas S. Leatherbury tleatherbury@velaw.com Tel +1.214.220.7792 Fax +1.214.999.7792 March 23, 2020 Via Certified Mail The Honorable Ken Paxton Attorney General, State of Texas 209 West 14th Street Austin, Texas 78701 Attn: Open Records Division Re: Brief in Response to Request for Open …
