Supreme Court Again Prevents Texas from Executing Intellectually Disabled Prisoner by In an unusual case where prosecutors sided with the defense and the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court crossed sides, convicted Texas murderer Bobby James Moore has again been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore not a candidate for …
Texas: Prosecutorial Misconduct May Stymie Death Sentence by On October 26, 2006, Paul David Storey, then 21, and his accomplice, Mark Devayne Porter, robbed Putt Putt Golf & Games, a miniature golf course in Fort Worth, Texas. During the course of the robbery they shot and killed assistant manager James …
Texas Disapproved Publications List (January - June 2019) TEXAS DEt:·ARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLASSl~"iCATION AND RECORDS DIVISION DIHECTOR'S REVIEW COMMITtt:E ATTN: File Copy DATE: January 2, 2019- December 31, 2019 FROM: Director's Review Committee SUBJ: DRC Decisions For the months beginning January 2, 2019 and ending December 31, 2019 matter …
Honoring Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Switching the Default Rule From Pretrial Detention to Pretrial Release in Texas's Bail System, Texas A&M Law Review, 2019 Texas A&M Law Review Volume 6 Issue 1 2-2019 Honoring Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Switching the Default Rule from Pretrial Detention to Pretrial Release in Texas's …
Fifth Circuit Upholds Summary Judgment Dismissal in Jail Suicide Case by On April 26, 2019, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld a district court’s summary judgment dismissing a lawsuit over a Texas jail prisoner’s suicide. Early in the morning of February 19, 2016, Jose Luis Garza’s mother called 911 …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Texas Challenge to Forced Prison Labor by On May 1, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s dismissal of claims by a Texas state prisoner related to his “religiously-motivated decision not to participate in an unpaid prison work program.” The court …
Williams v. Cenikor Foundation, Class Action Complaint, Withholding Wages, 2019 Case 4:19-cv-02828 Document 1 Filed on 05/22/19 in TXSD Page 1 of 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION SHELBY LEE WILLIAMS and RANDY EDWARD POUNCY, Individually and On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, …
Federal Circuit Upholds BOP Guard’s Termination Despite 1,265-Day Delay by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the termination of a federal prison guard, finding that he waived any claim of prejudice from a 1,265-day delay between commencement of the investigation …
Salim v. JPay, TX, Preliminary Approval of Settlement, Video Visitation Cutoff, 2019 Case 4:18-cv-00730-ALM-KPJ Document 16 Filed 04/16/19 Page 1 of 12 PageID #: 142 United States District Court EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SHERMAN DIVISION OUMER SALIM, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated v. JPAY, INC. § § …
Conflict of Interest in Texas Rangers’ Investigation of Deaths at LaSalle-Operated Jails? by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2019, the Dallas Morning News reported that Louisiana-based private prison company LaSalle Corrections, which operates eight jails in Texas, employs a former Texas Ranger whose son oversees that law enforcement …
Texas Prisons, We’ve Got Some Questions About Your Commissary Vendors by Stephen Raher by Stephen Raher, Prison Policy Initiative One of the original inspirations for the Prison Policy Initiative’s May 2018 report on prison commissaries earlier [see: PLN, Aug. 2018, p.1] was a 2010 article from the Texas Tribune that analyzed $95 million in purchases …
Jones v. Livingston, TX, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2019 (Page 1 of 12) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DJSTIUCT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DMSJON ROY JONES, individually, ALICE JONES, individuaJJy, and LEQUETI'A DAVIS, as next mend to QJ.; and WYNlHIA CHEATIJM as guardian ad litem ofB,W.; on bebalrofall wrongful death beneficiaries QUINTERO …
In Search of Justice: How DHS PREA Standards Don’t Necessarily Protect Immigrants From Assault by Tina Vasquez by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News, March 13, 2019 This is the second article in a two-part series. Read the first article in the series here. Trying to understand the systems in place intended to …
In Search of Safety: An Investigation of Abuse at an Immigration Facility by Tina Vasquez by Tina Vasquez, Rewire.News, March 8, 2019 Over a ten-month period, Rewire.News partnered with Latino USA to dig into the case of one woman’s alleged sexual abuse. What we learned through a FOIA request raised …
Texas Female Prisoners Denied Equal Academic and Vocational Training by Depending on whose figures are relied on, Texas has either the largest or second-largest prison system in the United States. Ninety-one percent of Texas’ 150,000 prisoners are men. For the 12,500 female Texas prisoners, the list of career training offered …
Counties Modify, Cancel Contracts for Privately Operated Immigration Detention Centers by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Using a type of contract known as an Intergovernmental Service Agreement (ISA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has partnered with local governments to place immigrant detainees in unused jail beds or detention centers built …
Sabbie v. Southwestern Correctional, TX, Report and Recommendation, Wrongful Death, 2019 Case 5:17-cv-00113-RWS-CMC Document 122 Filed 03/06/19 Page 1 of 169 PageID #: 2492 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TEXARKANA DIVISION TERESA SABBIE, individually, as personal § representative of the ESTATE OF § MICHAEL SABBIE, and as …
Fifth Circuit Holds Magistrate Judge Has No Authority to Deem Motion for Reconsideration Withdrawn by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On August 21, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal magistrate judge had no authority to sua sponte deem a motion for reconsideration withdrawn in a …
Texas Accounts for Over Ten Percent of Nation’s Jail Deaths by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke There are over 1,000 prisoner deaths each year in U.S. jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and one of every ten occurs in Texas. Over the nine-month period between October 1, 2017 …
