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62 Document(s) [ Subject: Inmate health ]
Committee: | House Corrections | |
Title: | Committee meeting handouts and testimony, June 15, 2022 (Behavioral health services, treatment, and recovery options) | |
Subjects: | County jails | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | | |
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Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
Online version: | View report [96 pages File size: 10,909 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | For individuals in county jails and TDCJ facilities, or on community supervision or parole, examine:
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Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Human trafficking | Inmate health | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Prisoner re-entry | Recidivism | State jail system | Telemedicine | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.85 C868 | |
Session: | 85th R.S. (2017) | |
Online version: | View report [148 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Identify Successful Re-Entry Programs: Study current reentry programs and procedures across Texas' adult criminal justice system and identify which are most effective. Review best practices and make recommendations to ensure that incarcerated individuals who are released from a county or city jail, state jail, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice have adequate supervision and access to employment, housing, treatment, and other support programs to allow for successful reentry and integration into the community and to prevent recidivism. | |
2. | State Jail Review to Improve Outcomes: Perform a comprehensive analysis and study of the Texas state jail system. Examine the access to and use of rehabilitation, vocation, and education programs. Determine whether current programs are effective and if there are efficiencies that can be found to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes. | |
3. | Telemedicine in Correctional Facilities: Review current availability and best practices in the state regarding the use of telemedicine for inmates in city or county jail, state jail, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Examine and make recommendations on whether access to care and outcomes can be improved through the expanded use of telemedicine for medical and mental health services, and whether expansion would create efficiencies. Examine barriers to implementation and expansion of telemedicine in correctional facilities. | |
4. | Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention: Study opportunities to increase awareness of human trafficking through public awareness campaigns, among local officials, and within public school districts including the identification of potential human trafficking and stash houses as well as how and where to report. Examine the Human Trafficking Prevention Business Partnership Program at the Office of the Secretary of State and provide recommendations for increasing participation of Texas businesses in the fight against human trafficking. | |
5. | Monitoring: Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee during the 85th Legislature and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/ or complete implementation of the following: • Senate Bill 12, Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies with the purchase of bulletproof vests and body armor; • Senate Bill 30, Relating to the inclusion of instruction regarding interaction with peace officers in the required curriculu m for certain public school students and in driver education courses and to civilian interaction training for peace officers; and • Senate Bill 1326, Relating to procedures regarding criminal defendants who are or may be persons with a mental illness or an intellectual disability and to certain duties of the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System related to persons with mental illness. | |
Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Subjects: | Alternatives to incarceration | Driving while intoxicated | Elderly inmates | Felonies | Inmate health | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Mentally ill inmates | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Probation | Texas Penal Code | Theft | Youthful offenders | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.83 C868 | |
Session: | 83rd R.S. (2013) | |
Online version: | View report [85 pages] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Review cases involving the imposition of probation rather than imprisonment or commitment for adult and juvenile intoxication manslaughter offenders. Make recommendations to ensure that intoxication manslaughter sentences include appropriate punishment levels, maintain public safety, and serve to deter driving under the influence. | |
2. | Study the operations of the Texas prison system with respect to the medical and mental health care treatment. Study potential cost savings associated with identifying offenders with dual diagnoses and routing these individuals into appropriate services before, during, and after involvement with the criminal justice system. Study the way in which geriatric parole cases are currently evaluated and identify opportunities for reducing costs associated with the geriatric inmate population without compromising public safety. | |
3. | Study and make recommendations related to jail diversion, reduced recidivism rates, and access to services for those within the system who suffer from a mental illness. Monitor the progress and implementation of the jail diversion pilot program for the mentally ill in Harris County and determine the best practices to be applied statewide. | |
4. | Compile an inventory of all the juvenile specialty courts in the state, the juvenile population served, and the courts' program guidelines and practices. Identify gaps in services, geographically, by issue area, and juvenile population. Study the efficacy of each court through an analysis of recidivism rates and cost effectiveness and make recommendations regarding the best practices of juvenile specialty courts. | |
5. | Study and make recommendations regarding sentencing of youth under 18 accused of committing serious crimes. | |
6. | Study the value ladder of charges for theft and related offenses within the Texas Penal Code and recommend any necessary updates and proposed legislative reforms. | |
7. | Evaluate the approximately 1,500 non-traditional criminal offenses that can be found outside of the Penal Code. Study the feasibility of streamlining these offenses and examine ambiguities in the law. Analyze whether and to what extent some of these non-traditional criminal offenses should be eliminated. | |
Committee: | House Corrections | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Corrections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2006 : a report to the House of Representatives, 80th Texas Legislature | |
Subjects: | After school programs | County jails | Crime prevention | Criminal Justice Advisory Council | Criminal Justice Policy Council | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Criminally insane | Disciplinary alternative education programs | Drug rehabilitation programs | Elderly inmates | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Inmates | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice alternative education programs | Juvenile justice system | Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas | Mentally disabled inmates | Mentally ill inmates | Prison population | Privately-operated prisons | Probation | Sex offenders | State employee turnover | Windham School District | Women inmates | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.79 C817 | |
Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
Online version: | View report [150 pages File size: 34,034 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Study the organizational structure of the department to determine if the current system is effectively and efficiently addressing the needs of all components of the criminal justice system in conjunction with the Sunset review of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in 2007. | |
2. | Examine the probation system and reforms debated during the 79th Legislature, including using strategies such as graduated sanctions and specialized courts for reducing revocations and recidivism. Study the organization and cost of our probation system and make recommendations about how to prioritize and strengthen general supervision. | |
3. | Evaluate the correctional health care systems in other states as they compare to the Texas health care system, with a focus on greater accountability and competition among providers. | |
4. | Assess the programming needs for special populations in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). | |
5. | Review the operation and organization of the Windham School District. | |
6. | Study the adequacy of the state accountability system in measuring the effectiveness of Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEPs) based on academic performance, behavior modification and percentage of students referred to the juvenile justice system. (Joint interim charge with the House Committee on Public Education.) | |
7. | Study the effectiveness of prevention programs, such as after school programs, in reducing the actual indices of crime and the rate of young offenders entering the criminal justice system. (Joint interim charge with the House Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues.) | |
8. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's oversight and monitor the Governor's Judicial Advisory Council. | |
Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 80th Legislature | |
Subjects: | Border drug trafficking | Border issues | Border security | Child abuse | Competency to stand trial | Inmate health | Mentally ill inmates | Methamphetamine | Non-citizen inmates | Privately-operated prisons | Probation | Pseudoephedrine | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.79 C868 | |
Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
Online version: | View report [69 pages File size: 16,360 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Study the resources and facilities available to offenders with mental health needs in the Texas criminal justice system. Provide an inventory of resources and facilities. Develop recommendations to better allocate existing resources and efficiently address the needs of this population. | |
2. | Study the expenditure patterns and identify trends in the community supervision and corrections departments' use of state and local monies, known collectively as the Judicial Districts Trust Funds. Ascertain the percentages spent on direct supervision of probationers and identify notable policy decisions. Provide recommendations for improvements and methods of maximizing the use of these funds. | |
3. | Examine the allegations of abuse and neglect within the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) facilities and the appropriateness of TYC response. Include an analysis of factors that may be affecting the safety of inmates and staff and make recommendations for Legislative actions to improve the safety of inmates and staff at these facilities. | |
4. | Monitor the implementation of legislation relating to reducing the production and abuse of methamphetamine, including the predicted impact of methamphetamine's increased availability on state resources and criminal justice populations, and make recommendations for additional programs for further reductions in abuse and production. | |
5. | Study and make recommendations for methods to reduce kidnapping and violence along the Texas Border, focusing on reducing drug-related crime. | |
6. | Monitor the expenditure of funds for adult probation services dedicated to the lowering of revocations to state prisons and state jails. Examine the compliance with and effectiveness of associated budget riders and make recommendations for future funding needs. | |
7. | Study the feasibility of the State of Texas establishing or contracting with a private prison facility in the country of Mexico in order to house non-violent Mexican Nationals currently being housed in Texas prisons. | |
8. | Review other states' correctional health care systems and make recommendations, if necessary, for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Texas' system. | |
Committee: | House Corrections | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Corrections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature. | |
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 | |
Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
Online version: | View report [40 pages File size: 255 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
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: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
Title: | Interim Report - Charge 5 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 78th Legislature : charge five / Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. | |
Subjects: | Child crimes | Inmate health | Mental health services | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.77 c868 5 | |
Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
Online version: | View report [18 pages File size: 3,482 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Monitor efforts to increase the availability and effectiveness of state and local mental health services for adult and juvenile offenders, and recommend improvements where applicable. | |
Committee: | House Corrections | |
Title: | Interim report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Committee on Corrections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1996 : report to the House of Representatives, 75th Texas Legislature. | |
Subjects: | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Deferred adjudication | Inmate health | Managed care | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison labor | Probation | Telemedicine | Wackenhut Corrections Corporation | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.75 c817 | |
Session: | 74th R.S. (1995) | |
Online version: | View report [69 pages File size: 3,420 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Conduct active oversight of agencies under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
2. | Study the prison industries program regarding private sector employment of inmates. | |
3. | Study the continuing implementation of the managed health care system within the prison system. Consider how tele-medicine networks developed for the prison system might benefit local citizens. | |
4. | Review the need for changes in sentencing practices, the revocation of probation and the use of deferred adjudication. | |
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: | House Human Services | |
Title: | Interim report - Vol 1 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 1992 : a report to the House of Representatives, 73rd Legislature / Committee on Human Services, Texas House of Representatives. | |
Subjects: | Child abuse | Child Protective Services | Children with disabilities | Emergency medical services | Foster care | Hospital emergency rooms | Inmate health | Medicaid | Mental health services | Mentally disabled persons | Mentally ill persons | Nursing homes | Persons with disabilities | Protective and Regulatory Services, Texas Department of | Quality of care | Services for persons with disabilities | Trauma centers | Women's health | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.72 h88 1 | |
Session: | 72nd R.S. (1991) | |
Online version: | View report [370 pages File size: 18,729 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Study the implementation of the Pre-admissions Screening and Annual Resident Review (PASAAR) (OBRA '87 mandate) including the areas of program design, Alternate Disposition Plan (ADP), accountability, and residents' rights and training. | |
2. | Monitor child protective services in the proposed structure of the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services including criteria used in "priority" classifications and intervention methods and response time per classification; services provided to children over the age of 10 and to special needs children; value of family preservation services; and problems associated with abuse or neglected children in one-parent homes. | |
3. | Study health care in women's correctional facilities. | |
4. | Monitor and Coordinate with the Texas Health Policy Task Force as it relates to trauma care in Texas. | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Interim Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Final report of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Texas Legislature. | |
Subjects: | Alternatives to incarceration | Correctional officers | Corrections, Texas Department of | Criminal justice | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Mentally disabled inmates | Mentally ill inmates | Parole | Prison labor | Prison population | Prison reform | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938r 1974 | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View report [102 pages File size: 6,356 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
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. | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Building tender system : supplemental report : working paper | |
Library Catalog Title: | Building tender system : supplemental report : working paper / submitted to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform by John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938wb | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [5 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Custody and security working paper. | |
Library Catalog Title: | Custody and security working paper / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by Wayne Oakes. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938wc | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [10 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Inmate living conditions : housing supplemental report : working paper | |
Library Catalog Title: | Inmate living conditions : housing supplemental report : working paper / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938wl | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [23 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report on investigation of the Gatesville incident | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report on investigation of the Gatesville incident / Wayne Oakes, William K. Kimble. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938g | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [8 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report on Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report on Joint Committee on Prison Reform / Nancy Tarlton. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938iy | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [6 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report on investigation of incident at Ramsey I | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report on investigation of incident at Ramsey I, Thursday, November 8, 1973 / Wayne Oakes, John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938ir | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [6 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Letter concerning discharge or TYC employee | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Letter concerning discharge or TYC employee] / Nancy Tarlton. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938y | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [7 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform / Nancy Tarlton. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938gm | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [5 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Events leading up to today's meeting | |
Library Catalog Title: | Events leading up to today's meeting / Wayne Oakes. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938h 12/6/1973 | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [6 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Proposed outline for prison study | |
Library Catalog Title: | Proposed outline for prison study / John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938po | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [3 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Research literature | |
Library Catalog Title: | Research literature / John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938b | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Future policy toward incarceration | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Future policy toward incarceration]. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938p | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Housing working paper | |
Library Catalog Title: | Housing working paper / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by Erasmo Andrade. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938WH | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [51 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Inmate living conditions supplemental report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Inmate living conditions supplemental report / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by Wayne Oakes. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938WLO | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [3 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Labor and industry : working paper | |
Library Catalog Title: | Labor and industry : working paper / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by Val Mendoza. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938WPL | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [36 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Measurements of recidivism | |
Library Catalog Title: | Measurements of recidivism for the Joint Committee on Prison Reform. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938m | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [41 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Parole : working paper | |
Library Catalog Title: | Parole : working paper / submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform by Mary Ann Beaty-Arnold. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938WPP | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [96 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Press releases | |
Library Catalog Title: | Press releases. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938 | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [18 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Progress reports of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Progress reports of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform] | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938rp | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [8 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Project proposal : a study of the Texas Department of Corrections | |
Library Catalog Title: | Project proposal : a study of the Texas Department of Corrections / Joint Committee on Prison Reform. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938pp | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [14 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform / Nancy Tarlton. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938gr | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [7 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform / Erasmo Andrade. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938WV | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [6 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Suggested topics for legislation | |
Library Catalog Title: | Suggested topics for legislation. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938s | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [3 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | The Coffield Unit : a new prison for Texas | |
Library Catalog Title: | The Coffield Unit : a new prison for Texas / submitted to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform by James Blume, Paul Keeper, John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938w | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [23 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Transactional interview | |
Library Catalog Title: | Transactional interview | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938TO | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [106 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Working papers | |
Library Catalog Title: | Working papers submitted to Joint Committee on Prison Reform / by committee staff. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938wp | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [676 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Meeting with Ron Jackson, Acting Director of the Texas Youth Council | |
Library Catalog Title: | Meeting with Ron Jackson, Acting Director of the Texas Youth Council / John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938yp | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [1 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Testimony of W.J. Estelle, Jr. | |
Library Catalog Title: | Testimony of W.J. Estelle, Jr. director of Department of Corrections. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938te | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [52 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | The Texas Department of Corrections | |
Library Catalog Title: | The Texas Department of Corrections / Wyane Oakes. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938wd | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [10 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Ellis Unit | |
Library Catalog Title: | Ellis Unit / John Albach. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938re | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [8 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Survey of prisoner correspondence as of August 15, 1974 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Survey of prisoner correspondence as of August 15, 1974 / Joint Committee on Prison Reform. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938su | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | [Letter to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Letter to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform] / Delmar L. Watson. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938T | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [7 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Texas Legislature | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee to the Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Texas Legislature. | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 p938cr 1974 | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [116 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint Prison Reform | |
Title: | Report to the 63rd Leg. Joint Committee on Prison Reform of the Citizen's Advisory Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report to the 63rd Leg. Joint Committee on Prison Reform / Citizen's Advisory Committee on Prison Reform | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.63 P938cr | |
Session: | 63rd R.S. (1973) | |
Online version: | View document [205 pages] | |
Committee: | Joint State Penitentiaries and the Farm System, Investigation, Special | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Committee report on investigation of penitentiaries. | |
Subjects: | Inmate health | Inmate sexual assaults | Prison farms | Prison violence | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 50th Leg. R.S. 3343 (1947) | |
Session: | 50th R.S. (1947) | |
Online version: | View report [6 pages File size: 303 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate the operation of state penitentiaries and the prison farm system. * | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee | |
Title: | Majority Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of Penitentiary Investigating Committee. | |
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) | |
Session: | 39th R.S. (1925) | |
Online version: | View report [9 pages File size: 458 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. * | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee | |
Title: | Minority Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of Penitentiary Investigating Committee. | |
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) | |
Session: | 39th R.S. (1925) | |
Online version: | View report [2 pages File size: 277 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate the conduct of the State penitentiary affairs, including treatment or mistreatment of the convicts. * | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating Committee | |
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 | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.39 P378P | |
Session: | 39th R.S. (1925) | |
Online version: | View document [396 pages File size: 180,559 kb] | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Preliminary report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Penitentiary Investigating Committee report | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., R.S. 1182 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View report [9 pages File size: 205 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution. | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Majority report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee of the Thirty-seventh Legislature | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 74 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View report [11 pages File size: 658 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution. | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Minority report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Minority report | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate classification | Inmate education | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison officials | Prison violence | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 82 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View report [2 pages File size: 67 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate conduct of the state penitentiary affairs and especially as to the treatment or mistreatment of the convicts by officers and employees of the institution. | |
Supporting documents | ||
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Senate Subcommittee No. 2 report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Excerpts from the Report of Senate Subcommittee No. 2 | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., R.S. 546 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages File size: 86 kb] | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Miscellaneous correspondence | |
Library Catalog Title: | One "white elephant" tamed. | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 222 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages File size: 75 kb] | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiary Investigating | |
Title: | Report - Texas Prison Association correspondence | |
Library Catalog Title: | Extending Appreciation | |
Library Call Number: | S.J. of Tex., 37th Leg., 1st C.S. 404 (1921) | |
Session: | 37th R.S. (1921) | |
Online version: | View document [2 pages File size: 36 kb] | |
Committee: | House Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit Prison Farms | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of Committee to Visit State Prison Farms. | |
Subjects: | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison farms | Prison labor | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 34th Leg., R.S. 294 (1915) | |
Session: | 34th R.S. (1915) | |
Online version: | View report [7 pages] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Visit prison farms to investigate and provide information prior to considering a pending bill to create a new penitentiary system. * | |
Committee: | House Penitentiaries | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of Committee to Visit Penitentiaries. | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 33rd Leg., R.S. 1001 (1913) | |
Session: | 33rd R.S. (1913) | |
Online version: | View report [28 pages File size: 1,904 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Visit the state penal institutions and investigate their conditions, management and operations. * | |
Committee: | House Appropriations Subcommittee on the State Penitentiaries and State Farms | |
Title: | Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of Committee to Visit the State Penitentiaries. | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 32nd Leg., R.S. 538 (1911) | |
Session: | 32nd R.S. (1911) | |
Online version: | View report [8 pages File size: 456 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate the physical condition of the State's penal institutions, State farms, contract farms and share farms. | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiaries Investigating | |
Title: | Part I: Final Report; Proceedings; and Audit, Examination and Methods Report | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee including all exhibits and testimony taken by the Committee. | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.31 P378P | |
Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
Online version: | View report [157 pages File size: 7,691 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary. | |
2. | Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time. | |
3. | Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State. | |
4. | Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation. | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiaries Investigating | |
Title: | Part II: Stenographer's Report of Evidence | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee including all exhibits and testimony taken by the Committee. | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.31 P378P | |
Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
Online version: | View report [530 pages File size: 28,891 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary. | |
2. | Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time. | |
3. | Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State. | |
4. | Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation. | |
Committee: | Joint Penitentiaries Investigating | |
Title: | Part III: Subcommittee and Full Committee Reports; Index | |
Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee including all exhibits and testimony taken by the Committee. | |
Subjects: | Huntsville Unit | Inmate health | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prison violence | Prisons | Rusk State Penitentiary | | |
Library Call Number: | L1836.31 P378P | |
Session: | 31st R.S. (1909) | |
Online version: | View report [352 pages File size: 21,182 kb] | |
Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
1. | Visit the Huntsville and Rusk penitentiaries and all other places as in their judgment may be necessary. | |
2. | Make a thorough and complete examination of the financial conditions of the penitentiary system, employing such help as may be deemed necessary to the end that a full, fair, complete and exhaustive examination be made of the entire penitentiary system covering a period from January 1, 1907, or prior to that time if deemed necessary by the committee, to the present time. | |
3. | Make an investigation of the iron industry at Rusk and make recommendations as to the future operation of such iron industry as they believe would best subserve the State's interests, and recommend whether or not such industry should be abandoned or its operation continued by the State. | |
4. | Investigate the conditions of the penitentiary at Rusk and of all farms, camps and trains where convicts are worked or kept, as to the food, clothing, health and treatment of the convicts, and all matters pertaining to their discipline, safe keeping and reformation. | |
Committee: | House Penitentiary | |
Title: | Consideration of the penal system and the penitentiary lease | |
Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
Subjects: | Convict lease system | Inmate health | Inmates | Prison escapes | Prison labor | Prison population | Prisons | | |
Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 15th Leg., R.S. 182 (1876) | |
Session: | 15th R.S. (1876) | |
Online version: | View report [21 pages File size: 1,083 kb] | |
Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
1. | Investigate all matters related to the affairs of the penitentiary Commissioners appointed by the Governor and report as to what may be necessary to enable the State of Texas to resume control of the penitentiary in case of emergency and report on the practicability of adding to the penitentiary in Huntsville. * |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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