Advisory Commission Report on Polygraph Examiners, TX Sunset, 2008 SUNSET ADVISORY COMMISSION STAFF REPORT Department of Public Safety Private Security Board Polygraph Examiners Board May 2008 Sunset Advisory Commission Representative Carl Isett, Chair Senator Glenn Hegar, Jr., Vice Chair Representative Dan Flynn Senator Kim Brimer Representative Linda Harper-Brown Senator Robert …
TX Death Penalty Developments in 2013 TX Coal. to Abolish the Death Penalty 2014 Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2013: The Year in Review A Report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2013: The Year in Review The Texas Coalition to Abolish …
Judge to Recommend Whether to Exonerate “San Antonio Four” of Sexual Assault Convictions by Matthew Clarke A San Antonio, Texas judge is considering what he will recommend to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after hearing testimony that four women convicted of sexually abusing two young girls in 1994 should …
Texas Prisons to Allow In-person Wedding Ceremonies after Prohibition on Proxy Marriages by Prisoners in Texas will once again be allowed to marry someone on the outside under new rules formulated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDJC) in the wake of an outcry of public opinion following a …
Cole et al v. Livingston et al, TX, Memo and Order, heat exposure, 8th Am, 2016 Case 4:14-cv-01698 Document 348 Filed in TXSD on 01/22/16 Page 1 of 20 United States District Court Southern District of Texas ENTERED UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION KEITH COLE, …
City of Jasper Settles Jail Beating Suit for $75,000 by Matthew Clarke In November 2013, the City of Jasper, Texas, settled a lawsuit brought by a young black woman who was allegedly beaten by police at the Jasper City Jail without justification. She received $75,000. Keyarika Diggles, a 25-year-old single …
Fifth Circuit Holds No Bivens Action Available for Immigration Arrests by Two undocumented immigrants who were subjected to traffic stops and arrested by federal Customs and Border Patrol agents far from the border filed Bivens actions against the agents including claims of due process violations, requests for relief under the …
Texas Counties Still Stuck With Empty Public-Private Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke It was a bad deal for Texas cities and counties when, prison-construction entrepreneurs talked them into building publicly-financed prisons, for private corporations to operate; housing a surplus of prisoners at a profit. The counties went deep …
Texas State District Judge Sentenced for Corruption by Matthew Clarke On August 21, 2013, Abel Corral Limas, 60, former judge of the 404th Judicial District Court of Cameron County, Texas, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on racketeering charges he pleaded guilty to on March 31, 2011. Limas …
Texas Guards Who Fought with Juveniles Disciplined but Not Prosecuted by David Reutter Seven guards at a Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJ) facility have been fired or disciplined for assaulting teenage prisoners. Many of the incidents were caught on video. The TJJ established the Phoenix Program in 2012 to calm …
Texas Jail Expansion by another Name on Ballot Passes by David Reutter Jail expansion was unpopular in 2007 with voters in Harris County and the City of Houston. Learning from that defeat, local politicians gained approval of an expansion of the jail, but they called it something else on the …
Thomas v. Williams, TX, Plaintiff's Memo in Support of Opposed Motion, 2016 Case 4:14-cv-02711 Document 110 Filed in TXSD on 01/10/16 Page 1 of 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION Plaintiffs Defendants. A. INTRODUCTION sua sponte i.e., Case 4:14-cv-02711 Document 110 Filed in TXSD on …
McDaniel v. Tom Green County, TX, Complaint, Wrongful Death Medical Neglect, 2016 Case 6:16-cv-00002-C Document 1 Filed 01/08/16 Page 1 of 14 PageID 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS SAN ANGELO DIVISION CHARLEY McDANIEL, and CORY WILLIAMS, individually and as heirs at law to the …
Texas Begins Intercepting and Blocking Cell Phone Calls from Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In April 2013, Texas began intercepting cell phone calls originating in two of its largest prisons. The equipment installed at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont and the McConnell Unit in Beeville is intended to …
Segregation Rate and Segregated Prisoner Suicide Rate High in Texas by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke At around 5.5%, the segregation rate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is over twice the national average of 2.7%. Segregating so many prisoners raises questions about the mental health effects of …
Texas Grand Jury Indicts Two Jailers in Prisoner’s Death; Others Face Discipline by Texas Grand Jury Indicts Two Jailers in Prisoner’s Death; Others Face Discipline On November 23, 2015, a grand jury in Tarrant County, Texas returned an indictment against two Arlington Police Department detention officers for one count each …
Public Information Handbook, Attorney General of Texas, 2016 PUBLIC INFORMATION HANDBOOK 2016 REV 10/15 Dear Fellow Texans: The Texas Public Information Act sets requirements for the ability of citizens to access information on action taken by governmental bodies. This transparency provides Texans with a more complete understanding of how their …
Texas Hospital Settles Suit over Improper Border Patrol Search for $1.1 Million by Matthew Clarke Texas Hospital Settles Suit over Improper Border Patrol Search for $1.1 Million by Matt Clarke The University Medical Center of El Paso and its emergency room physicians settled their part of a federal civil rights …
Brown v Taylor, TX, Plf Brief, prisoner mailbox rule, 2015 Case: 13-10588 Document: 00513301554 Page: 1 Date Filed: 12/09/2015 No. 13-10588 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT CLARENCE D. BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant v. ALLISON TAYLOR, IN HER OFFICIAL AND INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF …
Texas Enacts Legislation to Reduce Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke Texas Enacts Legislation to Reduce Wrongful Convictions by Matt Clarke Legal experts in Texas are trying to iron out a wrinkle they say is an unintended consequence arising from a new law governing discovery in criminal cases, but despite the …
