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Coalition aims to keep Texas 17-year-olds out of adult jails
Expanding reentry education, job training and treatment alternatives to incarceration were announced Wednesday as the upcoming legislative priorities for the Texas Smart-On-Crime Coalition.
A Nonviolent 15-year-old Will Spend Christmas in an Overcrowded Facility
A part of Amelia Rondon almost did not want to attend her son’s detention hearing, held three days before Christmas.
Bill aims at cutting criminal justice debt
Inspired by what he sees as a proliferation of debtor prisons, a state representative has filed a bill that permits judges to waive fines and fees imposed on poor people charged with Class C misdemeanors.
Are Inmate Phone Privileges Too Costly?
Bill Pope knows a thing or two about prison phones. He’s the president of NCIC, a service provider for phones in Texas detention centers. He also knows about how the phones affect lives.
Misused prisons waste capital, labor and real estate
An executive can commit no greater sin in business than to misuse capital, labor or real property, the foundations of wealth.
Report warns against cutting funding for inmates
When lawmakers return to Austin in 10 days to begin grappling with what appears will be a bare-bones state budget, a legislative panel that oversees the Texas prison system is urging them to resist cutting funding for programs that help former inmates and probationers adjust to free-world life.
Commentary: Is Texas wasting money by locking up so many people? Easy answer is yes
An executive can commit no greater sin in business than to misuse capital, labor or real property, the foundations of wealth.
Videotapes reveal flaws in Harris County bail bond hearings
Anthony Wayne Goffney shuffles toward the floor marker where he is told to stand, wearing light blue pants and a smock top, four days after being jailed for trespassing.
What Does a New Sheriff Mean for Harris County?
While many Harris County residents are in mourning for the nation as a whole, some criminal justice experts say there's reason to be optimistic about a political office closer to home — specifically, Sheriff-Elect Ed Gonzalez.