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7 Document(s) [ Subject: Prison%20construction ]
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 75th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Blood alcohol concentration | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Driving while intoxicated | Drug rehabilitation programs | Gun laws | Guns | Handguns - Registration | Inmate rehabilitation | Open container laws | Parole | Prison construction | Prison population | Privately-operated prisons | Probation | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Recidivism | Right to Carry Act | Services for persons with disabilities | Sex offenders | State jail system | Statutory revision | Substance abuse | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.74 c868 | |
| Session: | 74th R.S. (1995) | |
| Online version: | View report [32 pages File size: 1,664 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and determine if there are any needed changes in the Driving While Intoxicated or related statutes, with a review of statutes in other states. This review should include, but not be limited to: the use of sobriety checkpoints; prohibition of open alcoholic beverage containers in motor vehicles; changing the blood alcohol threshold; and penalties for DWI offenses, including Intoxication Manslaughter. | |
| 2. | Review present and future substance abuse treatment programs in community programs, correctional facilities, and parole programs, to determine the number of offenders requiring treatment in all stages of the criminal justice system, the facility and personnel requirements to effectively treat offenders and to provide necessary aftercare by the year 2002, including projections for the next two bienniums. | |
| 3. | Review the progress of the state jails, including determining; (a) is programming available and effective for all state jail felons and if some are not receiving programming, why not; (b) is there effective programming in both the state operated and locally operated facilities; and (c) are programming efforts including preventing offenders from placing future demands on the criminal justice system. | |
| 4. | Review alternatives to incarceration that will reduce the need for further prison expansion, while improving public safety in light of the demand for prison space, through the year 2002. | |
| 5. | Review whether the Legislature should implement funding of the Department of Criminal Justice on performance of their efforts to reduce recidivism, including review of the Task Force on Recidivism. | |
| 6. | Monitor implementation of SB 60, 74th R.S., Right to Carry Act, and develop legislation to address administrative problems encountered by the Department of Public Safety and any other problems that may be identified. | |
| 7. | Review the cost and effectiveness of construction and operations, including programming, of Mode I and Mode II state jails, and any correctional facilities that are operated by private entities for use by the state, to determine which type of facility is the most cost effective to operate and which have the most effective programming and treatment, and to make recommendations to improve future operations, including cost effectiveness. | |
| 8. | Study and make recommendations for any penal or criminal justice issues that are identified as problems in legislation passed in the 74th Legislative Session, including omissions and unintended consequences of the legislation or related statutes, specifically including review of the criminal offenses created in the Education Code that may or may not conflict with provisions of the Penal Code. | |
| 9. | Review parole issues regarding sex offenders including available treatment and the statutory requirements as to which county the Parole Board may release an offender, to make recommendations for statutory changes, if any, that may be needed. | |
| Committee: | House Corrections | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 74th Legislature : report of the Committee on Corrections, Texas House of Representatives, 74th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Managed care | Prison construction | Prison labor | Prison population | Recidivism | State agency mandated reports | State jail system | Telemedicine | Windham School District | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.73 c868 | |
| Session: | 73rd R.S. (1993) | |
| Online version: | View report [64 pages File size: 2,429 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction, including a study of mandated reports to the legislature and legislative agencies. The study should consist of a review of the legislative reporting requirements of all agencies to identify areas where reporting obligations could be streamlined and agency accountability improved. The committee shall make specific recommendations about the continuation, modification or elimination of required legislative reports. | |
| 2. | Monitor and report on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's implementation of the managed health care system established in SB 378, 73rd Legislature, Regular Session. | |
| 3. | Monitor the construction of facilities by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Report to the legislature on construction progress and make recommendations regarding the adequacy and effectiveness of the construction program. | |
| 4. | Study the effects of inmate job training on recidivism, as proposed in HB 1602, 73rd Legislature, Regular Session. | |
| 5. | Study the use of private industry prison work programs and the assumption of costs by the prison through these programs. | |
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the 73rd Texas Legislature / Senate Interim Committee on Criminal Justice. | |
| Subjects: | County jails | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Drug rehabilitation programs | Family violence | Inmate rehabilitation | Medically recommended intensive supervision | Money laundering | Parole | Prison construction | Prison population | Prison reform | Probation | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Ruiz lawsuit | Searches and seizures | Stalking | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.72 c868s | |
| Session: | 72nd R.S. (1991) | |
| Online version: | View report [270 pages File size: 13,790 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | The Committee shall monitor the construction and location of additional prison beds authorized by HB 93, 72nd Legislature, 2nd Called Session. | |
| 2. | The Committee shall study and monitor the use of funds appropriated for the prison and criminal justice system. | |
| 3. | The Committee shall study and monitor the progress and impact of jail litigation in cooperation with the Attorney General's Office, including but not limited to HB 93, 72nd Legislature, 2nd Called Session. | |
| 4. | The Committee shall monitor and oversee legislation enacted during the 72nd Regular and Special Called Sessions that was considered by the Standing Committee on Criminal Justice including legislative mandates, all Performance Audit Review Recommendations, adopted or otherwise, and any agency-initiated changes. The Committee shall determine whether the programs that are the focus of study are functioning as planned. | |
| 5. | The Committee shall monitor implementation of sunset legislation. | |
| Committee: | House Law Enforcement | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Law Enforcement, Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Correctional officer shortages | Correctional officers | Corrections, Texas Department of | Good-conduct time | Juvenile crime | Mentally disabled inmates | Mentally Retarded Offender Program | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison construction | Privately-operated prisons | Ruiz lawsuit | State employee turnover | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 l41 | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View report [63 pages File size: 2,201 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study alternative means of meeting the program needs of the mentally handicapped offenders incarcerated in Texas prisons in conjunction with the Criminal Justice Policy Council. | |
| 2. | Study the problem of morale and employee turnover at the Department of Corrections and the fiscal impact of this situation on the State. | |
| 3. | Conduct monthly monitoring of the Department of Corrections construction division including new construction and renovation contracts for Ruiz litigation; oversight of contract award process; identification and reporting of cost-overruns and inconsistencies in management reporting of projects. | |
| 4. | Study the feasibility of private corrections systems in meeting the criminal justice needs of Texas including an analysis of the financial incentives for private investors in relation to the legal liability for the State and an analysis of private corrections products for practicality and cost effectiveness, in conjunction with the Appropriations Committee. | |
| 5. | Study the impact of the Ruiz settlement on production and harvesting of Department of Corrections agriculture crops. | |
| 6. | Monitor the percentage of crime committed in Texas that is attributed to juveniles. | |
| 7. | Study the impact of flat time on the violence and work stoppage at the Department of Corrections in conjunction with the percentage of inmates serving flat time sentences. | |
| Committee: | Prison Centralization Commission | |
| Title: | Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of Texas Prison Centralization Commission | |
| Subjects: | Prison construction | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | | |
| Library Call Number: | P3100.8 R299 1929 | |
| Session: | 41st R.S. (1929) | |
| Online version: | View report [40 pages File size: 3,560 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Evaluate existing Texas prison system, survey available state lands and other available lands for location of a centralized system. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | Prison Centralization Commission | |
| Title: | Report - Governor | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Proclamation of the Governor | |
| Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 41st Leg., 4th C.S. 1 (1930) | |
| Session: | 41st R.S. (1929) | |
| Online version: | View document [3 pages File size: 161 kb] | |
| Committee: | Joint Penitentiary, Select | |
| Title: | Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
| Subjects: | Prison construction | Prison security | | |
| Library Call Number: | LRL | |
| Session: | 3rd R.S. (1849) | |
| Online version: | View report [8 pages] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | To examine the penitentiary and report upon the qualities, kinds, quantities, and fitness etc. | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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