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46 Document(s) [ Subject: Prison reform ]

Committee:

House Corrections, 77th R.S. (2001)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternatives to incarceration | Correctional officer shortages | Court costs and fees | Criminal justice | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Drug rehabilitation programs | Fines | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Inmates | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison reform | Probation |

Library Call Number:

L1836.77 c817

Description:

[40 pages File size: 255 kb]

Charges:
1. Study community supervision caseloads, the effect of officer-to-offender ratios and the impact of caseload reductions on revocations and incarceration costs to the state.
2. Study the quality and availability of residential facilities and the potential cost savings of enhanced residential sentencing alternatives to long-term incarceration.
3. Review the fees assessed on adult offenders and their impacts on community supervision and parole. Consider offenders' abilities to pay supervision fees and any impact on revocations of parole.
4. Study the delivery of healthcare within the Texas prison system, including the number and types of healthcare practitioners needed, the recruitment and retention of those practitioners, management of chronic diseases, and the use of telemedicine and other technologies.
5. Actively monitor the agencies under the committee's oversight jurisdiction. Specifically monitor the implementation of staffing and training programs at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and their effects on the safety of both inmates and staff.
Committee:

House Corrections, 75th R.S. (1997)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

County jails | Inmate rehabilitation | Inmates | Jail Standards, Texas Commission on | Lawsuits | Prison population | Prison reform | Prisons | Recidivism |

Library Call Number:

L1836.75 c817

Description:

[65 pages File size: 3,907 kb]

Charges:
1. Study options for responding to the projected growth in the adult and youth inmate populations, to include construction of conventional beds, contract capacity, other types of permanent and temporary housing, and alternatives to incarceration.
2. Assess the effects of the 1995 legislation to curb frivolous inmate lawsuits.
3. Study traditional prison industries, including ways to expand useful inmate labor without creating unfair competition with private businesses or job and wage dislocations in the private sector.
4. Review the employment practices, security measures, and other operations of county jails, municipal and county jails, and privately operated municipal and county jails housing inmates convicted of offenses in other states. Identify any particular problems associated with private operations or with acceptance of inmates for pay. (Joint with House Committee on County Affairs)
5. Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction.
Committee:

Senate Criminal Justice, Interim, 72nd R.S. (1991)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

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

Description:

[270 pages File size: 13,790 kb]

Charges:
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:

Senate Criminal Justice, 70th R.S. (1987)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Corrections, Texas Department of | Prison labor | Prison reform |

Library Call Number:

L1836.70 c868p

Description:

[47 pages File size: 1,893 kb]

Charges:
1. Study the prison industries program operated by the Texas Department of Corrections. The study will include, but not be limited to, the issues of program efficiency, the desirability of providing nominal wages to inmate workers, job training opportunities, and tax incentives to encourage businesses to contract the with department for the production of goods presently being manufactured or assembled outside the United States for American consumption.
Committee:

Senate Criminal Justice, 70th R.S. (1987)

Title:

Prison industries: Statutory framework

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.70 c868pi

Description:

[22 pages File size: 946 kb]
Committee:

Senate Criminal Justice, 70th R.S. (1987)

Title:

SR 141, 70th Leg., 2nd C.S.

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

SR 141

Description:

[2 pages File size: 403 kb]
Committee:

House Criminal Jurisprudence, 68th R.S. (1983)

Title:

Interim report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternatives to incarceration | At-risk youth | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison population | Prison reform | Probation | Recidivism | Runaway children | Statutory revision | Texas Code of Criminal Procedure | Truancy | Youth Commission, Texas |

Library Call Number:

L1836.68 j979cr

Description:

[126 pages File size: 3,747 kb]

Charges:
1. To oversee the expenditure of the $3 million appropriations to the Texas Education Agency earmarked for a program designed to keep trouble students, truants, etc. enrolled in a classroom situation. To follow the guidelines set up by TEA for the participating school districts.
2. To track the prison reform measures and see how they are being implemented, To determine the benefits derived from these measures, both in terms of recidivism and in terms of monetary savings.
3. To study the need/benefits of raising the jurisdictional age of TYC to age 21 from age 18 for certain instances when keeping the child past the age of 18 would be beneficial to child and/or society.
4. To look into alternative programs for youths who have committed status crimes, i.e.. truancy, running away from home, etc. To find alternatives to sentencing in TYC facilities for property offenders, as well as some minor non-property offenders.
5. To devise a policy to keep the Texas Penal Code standardized, so that specific crimes do not have separate forms of sentencing.
6. Study the need to reform the charging instrument in Texas; consider whether the state should be allowed to prosecute crimes other than capital offenses on the basis of an information rather than an indictment issued by a grand jury. *
7. Make recommendations regarding the non-substantive changes to the probation and parole laws currently found in Articles 42.12 and 42.13 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. *
Committee:

Senate State Affairs, 67th R.S. (1981)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternatives to incarceration | Prison population | Prison reform | Ruiz lawsuit |

Library Call Number:

L1836.67 l521

Description:

[73 pages File size: 2,440 kb]

Charges:
1. Study legislative options for responding to crowding in Texas prisons. *
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Interim Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Alternatives to incarceration | Correctional officers | Corrections, Texas Department of | Criminal justice | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Inmates with intellectual disabilities | Inmates with mental illness | Parole | Prison labor | Prison population | Prison reform | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938r 1974

Description:

[102 pages File size: 6,356 kb]

Charges:
1. Study needed reforms in the Texas system of imprisonment of convicted persons with the purpose of seeking meaningful alternatives to the present anti-social aspects of the system which are not conducive to the rehabilitation of inmates and their return to society as productive, useful, and law-abiding citizens.
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Building tender system : supplemental report : working paper

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938wb

Description:

[5 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Custody and security working paper.

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938wc

Description:

[10 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Inmate living conditions : housing supplemental report : working paper

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938wl

Description:

[23 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report on investigation of the Gatesville incident

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938g

Description:

[8 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report on Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938iy

Description:

[6 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report on investigation of incident at Ramsey I

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938ir

Description:

[6 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Letter concerning discharge or TYC employee

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938y

Description:

[7 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938gm

Description:

[5 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Events leading up to today's meeting

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938h 12/6/1973

Description:

[6 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Proposed outline for prison study

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938po

Description:

[3 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Research literature

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938b

Description:

[2 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Future policy toward incarceration

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938p

Description:

[2 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Housing working paper

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938WH

Description:

[51 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Inmate living conditions supplemental report

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938WLO

Description:

[3 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Labor and industry : working paper

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938WPL

Description:

[36 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Measurements of recidivism

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938m

Description:

[41 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Parole : working paper

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938WPP

Description:

[96 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Press releases

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938

Description:

[18 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Progress reports of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938rp

Description:

[8 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Project proposal : a study of the Texas Department of Corrections

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938pp

Description:

[14 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938gr

Description:

[7 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938WV

Description:

[6 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Suggested topics for legislation

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938s

Description:

[3 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

The Coffield Unit : a new prison for Texas

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938w

Description:

[23 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Transactional interview

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938TO

Description:

[106 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Working papers

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938wp

Description:

[676 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Meeting with Ron Jackson, Acting Director of the Texas Youth Council

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938yp

Description:

[1 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Testimony of W.J. Estelle, Jr.

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938te

Description:

[52 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

The Texas Department of Corrections

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938wd

Description:

[10 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Ellis Unit

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938re

Description:

[8 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Survey of prisoner correspondence as of August 15, 1974

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938su

Description:

[2 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

[Letter to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938T

Description:

[7 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Texas Legislature

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 p938cr 1974

Description:

[116 pages]
Committee:

Joint Prison Reform, 63rd R.S. (1973)

Title:

Report to the 63rd Leg. Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Citizen's Advisory Committee on Prison Reform

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.63 P938cr

Description:

[205 pages]
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Majority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison reform | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S., 870 (1925)

Description:

[9 pages File size: 458 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Minority Report

Document type:

Report

Subjects:

Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison reform | Prison violence | Prisons |

Library Call Number:

H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S., 874 (1925)

Description:

[2 pages File size: 277 kb]

Charges:
1. Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. *
Committee:

Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee, 39th R.S. (1925)

Title:

Testimony, Transcript, and Exhibits, February 4-20, 1925; Stenographic Reports of Penitentiary Investigating Committee, Supplements to Senate Journal, February 27, March 7, 10, and 19, 1925

Document type:

Supporting document

Library Call Number:

L1836.39 P378P

Description:

[396 pages File size: 180,559 kb]

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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