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	TEXAS:Imprisoning Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Texas uses the Auburn System, following the practice of penologists at the state penitentiary in Auburn, New York: prisoners engage in day labor within the prison walls and retire in silence to their cells in the evening.
		Texas is the last state to join the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers, an agreement allowing Texas to supervise parolees and probationers moving in from other states and to arrange for supervision of Texas parolees and probationers wishing to leave the state.
		Texas opens new prison facilities at a rate of more than seven a year, adding 109,000 new prison beds at a capital cost of more than $2.3 billion not counting annual operating expenses.
	utopia.utexas.edu /articles/txpolitics/prison.html (2405 words)

	List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of state prisons in Texas.
		It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of Texas.
		The execution chamber is housed at the Huntsville Prison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Texas_state_prisons (121 words)

	State Platform 2005 - Green Party of Texas (Social Justice, Non-Violence, Ecology, Grass-roots Democracy) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Texas Greens urge the passage of a state constitutional amendment that would allow state senators to be selected by PR, on the basis of their party's percentage of the total votes cast.
		State and county tax codes are labyrinths of deductions, loopholes, exemptions, and write-offs, the result of insider and industry lobbying that has damaged our economy as it has served the interests of big business and financial institutions, leaving middle-class and poor people to shoulder a growing share of local and state taxes.
		Prison inmate labor must not cause the demotion or unemployment of existing workers and be subject to prevailing wage laws.
	www.txgreens.org /resources/gpinfo/state-platform.htm (9155 words)

	Texas Responds: War Relief Package
		Texas should modify the Texas Hazlewood Act to waive tuition and fees to the spouses of Texas servicemen killed in the line of duty during the “Enduring Freedom” campaign against terrorists.
		Texas should amend Texas Government Code §615.121, which authorizes tuition and/or fee waivers and reimbursement for the cost of textbooks to include the spouses and dependents of public safety officers killed in the “Noble Eagle” homeland defense campaign.
		The state waives tuition and/or certain fees at public Texas universities, health-related institutions, technical colleges and community colleges for eligible veterans and the dependents of military personnel, law enforcement officers and other public safety workers killed or injured in the line of duty and their children through a variety of programs.
	www.window.state.tx.us /wrp/edu02.html (1021 words)

	Texas Politics - The Justice System
		Texas is among the few states that use partisan elections to select judges at all levels of the court system.
		Though the gap in Texas between the proportion of women in the population and the proportion of judges who are women is greater than the comparable gap for any of the minority groups, the overall number of women judges is substantial.
		The 2000 Texas Crime Poll, an annual public opinion poll of Texans' attitudes toward crime and the state justice system, showed that by 1994, crime was identified by a significant plurality of respondents (35 percent) as the single, most important problem in the state.
	texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu /html/just/print_just.html (12301 words)

	Appraisal of Texas Commission on Jail Standards - Texas State Library
		The counties are required to submit monthly reports listing the number and types of prisoners in the county jails.
		Because of the overcrowding at the state prisons, the Commission on Jail Standards was designated by the Legislature to pay county jails for housing state inmates.
		Description: These are monthly statements sent in by the counties, which list the number of felons--pretrial, convicted, convicted to county time; the paper-ready (inmates ready to transfer to state prisons); parole violators; and misdemeanants.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /arc/appraisal/jailstds.html (8418 words)

	e-Texas Recommendations
		Texas budgeted $51.8 million in state and federal funds for adult basic education services in fiscal 2000.
		Many of their partners receive no state or federal dollars, such as the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, but information on their location, size, and adult education program offerings is maintained and distributed to the local workforce board and other social service agencies that might be a source for students.
		The list could be expanded to include data on services offered, funding, numbers of adults served, retention rates, and assessment results, as that information is collected by providers.
	www.window.state.tx.us /etexas2001/recommend/ch07/wf08.html (1886 words)

	The Texas State Cemetery in Austin Texas.
		The Texas State Cemetery is a mandatory stop for anyone with the slightest interest in Texas history.
		Kemp was a state employee who worked for the Texas Department of Transportation and it was his idea to gather the bodies of men and women who had contributed to Texas' history.
		He arrived in Texas to avenge a brother and cousin who were killed in the massacre of Fannin and his men at Goliad.
	www.texasescapes.com /AustinTexas/TexasStateCemetery/TexasStateCemetery.htm (1071 words)

	Texas State Publications Annual Index (1999) - Subjects (A - E) - Texas State Library
		TEXAS House Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
		TEXAS House Committee on Financial Institutions, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
		TEXAS House Committee on State Affairs, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /statepubs/annualindex/99subjecta-e.html (10062 words)

	TEXAS: ATTORNEYS PUSH FOR PRISON INVESTIGATIONS
		Texas Attorney General Dan MOrales maintains the state's prison system is in compliance with the law and it is the defendant's desire "to exercise autonomy over its institutions" and end federal court involvement.
		Brorby allege they have attempted several times to tour state correctional institutions with experts to do thier own assessment of conditions, but their efforts have been "rebuffed" by the defendants.
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	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1997-October/000910.html (603 words)

	John Connally Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The John Connally Unit is a maximum-security prison from which the infamous Texas 7 escaped on December 13, 2000.
		It is located just a mile out of Kenedy, Texas.
		This article about a building or structure in Texas is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Connally_Unit (81 words)

	Parents Anonymous of Texas, Inc.
		This is a summary of Parents Anonymous of Texas, Inc., a non-profit organization committed to preventing child maltreatment through the implementation of results-oriented, volunteer-driven programs offered at no cost to those served.
		The program is currently located in 27 Texas communities, with 13 additional sites in varying stages of new development or on a waiting list to start development.
		The program operates at 33 Texas prisons to stop child abuse, help heal the breakdown of the family unit, and prevent the reoccurence of child maltreatment, including child sexual abuse.
	www.tyc.state.tx.us /prevention/paranon.html (397 words)

	Texas State Prisons - Texas Hunting Seasons - www.texasnewspapers.physicaleducation.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		state prisons, 3,100 in local jails and 430 in federal institutions.
		The combination of drugs and method of administering them to condemned prisoners is constitutional, the Tennessee Supreme Court said in a decision striking down challenges to the state?s lethal injection protocol raised by death row inmate Abu-Ali Abdur?Rahman.
		In the Allred state prison near this ranching and oil town, Roderick Keith Johnson says he was bought and sold for sex by prison gangs with names like Gangster Disciples, Mandingo Warriors and the Mexican Mafia.
	www.texasnewspapers.physicaleducation.be /texas-hunting-seasons/texas-state-prisons.html (464 words)

	Texas Tough?: An Analysis of Incarceration and Crime Trends in The Lone Star State
		The Texas incarceration rate was calculated by adding the population of people housed in the Texas State Prisons, the Texas State Jails, the County Jail System, and the Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Program (SAFP), and dividing the Texas population (age 18 and older).
		Correctional Populations in the United States, 1996 (April 1999) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000.
		Our Texas incarceration rate differs slightly with what was reported by BJS in April 2000 (1014), because we used TDCJ to calculate the true rate of 1035.
	www.cjcj.org /pubs/texas/notes.html (410 words)

	Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A day after the state released school district accountability results, some Houston area school districts were trying to figure out how to regain their status as some of the state's top-rated school systems.
		States struggling to stop “brain drain,” the flight of young, educated people from their workforce, aren’t sure yet whether the solution is to offer financial incentives so bright students will stay or create jobs so they will come.
		So far, seven states have moved to fund the research, six have banned it, three have affirmed its legality but do not fund it and a handful of others continue to debate the issue.
	www.stateline.org /live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=120&languageId=1&contentId=-1 (1596 words)

	The Texas State Senate: Senate Committee on Criminal Justice
		Examine the allegations of abuse and neglect within the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) facilities and the appropriateness of TYC response.
		Monitor the expenditure of funds for adult probation services dedicated to the lowering of revocations to state prisons and state jails.
		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.
	www.senate.state.tx.us /75r/Senate/commit/c590/c590.htm (631 words)

	TJPC - Research & Statistics - Statistics Detailed Information Page
		These rules, which can be found in the Texas Administrative Code Chapter 341, detail the expectations for the departments regarding the role of the data coordinator, accuracy of data, reporting requirements, security of data and other issues relating to data collection and reporting.
		It is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and that provide work and other self-improvement opportunities to assist offenders in becoming law-abiding citizens.
		The mission of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) is to build the capacity for excellence in the Texas public education system and hold the system accountable for providing all students with a quality education that enables them to achieve their full potential.
	www.tjpc.state.tx.us /statistics/StatisticsDetail.htm (3756 words)

	Save Texas Reps » State House Races
		Some Democrats see the Austin district represented by State Rep. Todd Baxter to be their best bet at switching an R to a D in next year’s voting.
		While State Rep. Martha Wong’s Houston district leans Republican, the former city council member could encounter potential resistance to her re-election in a part of the city with the city’s highest population of gay and lesbian voters.
		The State Legislature is clearly not interested in drawing congressional districts that will allow the people of Texas to chose representatives to Congress that truly represent the will of the people.
	www.savetexasreps.com /index.php?cat=5 (3658 words)

	Texas Governors - Modern Texas - Part 3 - Texas State Library
		Six years later in 1982 she was elected state treasurer, the first woman elected to statewide office in Texas in fifty years.
		In the area of law enforcement, Richards increased prison space, cut the release of violent offenders, introduced a substance abuse program in Texas prisons, and opposed the sale of assault weapons and "cop-killer" bullets.
		During her administration a state lottery was approved and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /governors/modern/page3.html (907 words)

	Texas During the Rebellion
		Visitors to the state discussed the land and climate along with the unequal distribution of wealth and the increasing population.
		Texas was represented in the Confederate Senate by William Oldham at the time of Lee’s surrender.
		From the surrender in 1865 until the present, the mainstay of all histories concerning Texas during the Rebellion is the biography.
	barksdale.uta.edu /hall1.htm (9334 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Subject: Leading prison experts to convene Note to editors and news producers: The University of Texas at Austin Office of Public Affairs is providing the following news release in the form of text within this message.
		"The United States is one of the only Western countries without a formal and comprehensive system in place providing for the routine, external review of all prisons and jails," said conference organizer Michele Deitch, an adjunct professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow.
		Co-sponsored by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Pace Law School, the event is a follow-up to a high profile symposium titled "Prison Reform Revisited: The Unfinished Agenda," held at Pace Law School in 2003.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/german/symp/2006prisonsymppress.doc (440 words)

	Cyndi's List - Cowboys, Ranchers and The Wild West
		Lawmen and outlaws from Oklahoma Territory, Indian Territory or the State of Oklahoma.
		Mailing lists are interactive e-mail forums that are free for you to subscribe to and participate in.
		Provides public access to all the information contained in California's historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America.
	www.cyndislist.com /cowboys.htm (1584 words)

	Commission on Safety and Abuse \| Public Hearing 3
		Specifically, she'll describe how in some prisons officers played by the rules and treated her with respect, while in other facilities she and her daughter experienced unpredictable, arbitrary treatment and indignities bordering on abuse — and she'll offer the view that good leadership is the determining factor.
		Relying on her own long experience working inside prisons and her daughter's experience working as a corrections officer, Jackie Means will describe the stress of the job and the personal toll it takes on officers.
		She will argue that the present debate about whether private prisons are better or worse, safer or more dangerous than government-run facilities misses the point: Much is going wrong in both private and public prisons, and they suffer from many of the same problems.
	www.prisoncommission.org /public_hearing_3.asp (2983 words)

	State Secrets: Texas Monthly February 2001
		State leaders agree that the disparity between what is offered teachers in different districts is unfair.
		While some teacher advocates may argue for the state to pay a larger portion, budget writers are nervous about what would amount to an entitlement that is subject to ever-rising costs.
		State comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander has estimated that lawmakers will have $5.1 billion for new state spending during the next two-year budget cycle.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2001-02-01/statesecrets.php (696 words)

	Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We also teach in prisons 46 weeks a year, supply Bibles, Bible studies and life-changing books at no charge to inmates, Bible dictionaries and Strong's concordances to the more mature believers and assist chaplains by supplying personal libraries.
		A teaching/disciple series is broadcast five times a week to over three million homes and countless jails and prisons.
		Calvary Commission has been recognized by the State of Texas for over 20 years of outstanding service to the State.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=12817 (591 words)

	The Texas State Senate: Senate Research Center
		Eyes of Texas are Upon You: Gauging the Pulse of Privacy, The - March 2001(pdf)
		Chronology of Texas Prisons 1980 to 1991 - October 1991
		Texas School Districts by Senate District - Under the Existing Plan and the Federal Court Plan of December 1991 - April 1992
	www.senate.state.tx.us /SRC/Pub.htm (1515 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BEARD, ANDREW JACKSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1842, during the Vásquez-Woll campaign, Beard and his two younger brothers, William H. and Robert Sidney, assisted the Texas militia in repelling the Mexican invaders from San Antonio.
		Even though neither drew a fl bean in the Black Bean Episode, both died in Mexican prisons before the Mexican government released the group in 1844.
		The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical Association (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu).
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbecg_print.html (429 words)

	TATJC \| Find Legal Assistance
		These programs are listed by county or with the list of programs serving all counties, or in separate listing related to special populations.
		The State Bar of Texas operates a lawyer referral hotline for areas of the state not covered by a local lawyer referral service.
		A list of all the lawyer referral services in Texas is included in this publication.
	www.texasatj.org /LegalServicesandOth10DA2/index.asp (2749 words)

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