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FBI still investigating prison death in Pekin - Freeport Journal Standard

A former inmate of the Federal Correctional Institute-Pekin alleges in letters to his mother that inmate Adam Montoya begged for medication while in excruciating pain for several days prior to his death on Nov. 13. Randy Rader was transferred to a ...

Trinity Standard - December 2009 - East Texas News

GROVETON – After completing only two months of its 2010 fiscal year, Trinity County officials are being warned that the cost of housing jail inmates could create a major budget shortfall this year. During the Dec. 14 meeting of the Trinity County ...

On death row with one last hope - Taipei Times

Although the number of executions in the US has declined over the past five years, the percentage ... At the Mountain View Unit, a maximum-security state prison in Gatesville, Texas, Carty remains upbeat and still hopes that she will be exonerated.

Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials - San Francisco Chronicle

It was appropriate for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to visit Palm Springs on Tuesday to promote green jobs. Standing amid 4,000 windmills, the governor urged lawmakers in Sacramento to quickly pass his California Jobs Initiative. "It will send a clear ...

California Budget - San Francisco Chronicle

The simmering fight over cuts to breast cancer screening for poor women was in full effect Monday in the state Capitol. Democrats donned pink aprons (yes, including some men) and held a bake sale to raise... Breast cancer fight heats up with bake ...

FIRST ON WMCTV.com: John Ford describes life behind bars - WMC-TV

By Kontji Anthony - bio | email MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - He was one of the most high-profile, high-powered politicians in the state of Tennessee. But after 31 years as a senator, the Tennessee Waltz corruption sting put John Ford in prison on April 29 ...

NEWS ABOUT: inmates - Newser

(Newser) - A convicted burglar slipped out of prison in Texas to make a late-night run to Wal-Mart for cigarettes, then slipped back in. About 70 different times. The 19-year-old reportedly dyed his prison uniform with coffee so he wouldn't raise ...

Criminal InJustice Kos: The Death Penalty - DAILY KOS

I've been against the death penalty my entire life. The reason is simple. I believe there is infinite goodness in every human being, and everyone deserves another chance. I believe every person can change if given the right support for them. I know ...

Witness: Clark Called Bronco 'Easy Mark' - Denver Channel

DENVER -- The trial of a man accused of killing Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams entered its seventh day Wednesday with the dramatic testimony from a jail inmate and an order from the judge for the media not to publicize a witness' name ...

Jury: Dallas County not negligent in jail inmate's death 20 years ago ... - Dallas Morning News

A jury has ruled that Dallas County was not negligent in the death 20 years ago of an inmate who was attacked by another inmate when he was placed in a crowded jail cell. The case of Charles Ray Sempe was unusual because it made it to trial even ...

Open Question: How will the pro-illegal alien crowd on Yahoo! Answers defend these 300 illegal aliens with criminal records?

U.S. announces Texas roundup of 300 immigrants with criminal records By DIANNE SOLIS / The Dallas Morning News Nearly 300 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions were arrested this week in Texas, federal immigration officials and prosecutors said today. The largest number of arrests, 119, were in North Texas. Of the total, about half of the immigrants had convictions for violent crimes or drug offenses. Most of the crimes were committed in the Untied States, authorities said. "These are not people we want walking on our streets," said John Morton, the assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security who oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The arrests, though, raises questions about why the immigrants hadn’t been deported earlier, immediately after they'd served their time for criminal convictions. Morton said scrutiny of inmates in federal and state prisons is good, and immigrants are generally removed from the country after serving their prison sentences. But there are large gaps in municipal and county jails. A new program, called Secure Communities, seeks to link jail staff with federal data banks to ensure that those with criminal convictions are removed from the country. There are only 110 jail locations in the country that now use the program. By the end of 2013, ICE would like coverage across the nation, Morton said. Secure Communities has come under scrutiny for the relatively low number of persons caught who have been convicted of violent crimes – or what’s known in ICE as a "level one" offense. Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Irving, Mesquite and Dallas and Denton counties are among the jurisdictions using Secure Communities processes. The program began in November 2008. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022510dnmeticeraids.1572cfa1e.html more

Resolved Question: How to find out what crime a person committed who is in prison, for free?

He is in prison in Texas...I have his prison number and know what prison unit he is in...I can't find a site that will tell me his crime...all these sites that say free searches for inmates...they find him for free, but I don't need to find him ,I know where he is...I'm wanting to find out his crime and all the sites want to charge me to tell me.... He's guy I knew 10 years ago and he had his sister locate me on face book and he wants me to write him, but I want to know his crime first...Isn't their crime public information? If so can I call the prison, and they will tell me? more

Resolved Question: Texas Prison Inmate Needs Help! (SOmetimes our own systems are corrupt)?

Texas Prison Inmate Needs Help! (SOmetimes our own systems are corrupt)? Indifent Inmate Seeks-Professional- legal assistance was conviicted for Burglary under the "Law of Parties"( IN 1983) a Non-violent Offense and was Sentenced to a Life Term Has 27 Years done, Some One Willing to Help"Please" Write to Leonel Gutierrez T.D.C.J I.D# 0382377 French Robertson Unit 12071 f.m. 3522 Abilene, Texas 79601 Category more

Resolved Question: Please Help. How do I contact a person in prison in Rosharon, Texas?

Please help me. I've known a guy for many years and have been friends with him for that many. He comes from an affluent background (wealthy) and unfortunately, never has been in real trouble except with his drinking. (public intoxication, etc. he's never put anyone in danger because of alcohol) He's in prison due to breaking probation and his sentence is ten years. I've contacted the jail in Rosharon, Texas and was told I was not on his contact list therefore, they could not help me. I was also told I could look him up on the internet and I have...to no avail. (for days) All I've found were webs listing administration there. No inmates names. I know *Charlie would put me on his list if he knew where I was, but I've moved since then. He is the sweetest guy and would give his shirt off his back if you needed him to. I don't know what other course to take. Again, it's his drinking that has gotten him in trouble. And I don't think prison is the way to go if you have an addiction. It just dries a person out. Please help, his Mother died and he is all alone. His Father doesn't give a hoot about him and his Dad belongs to the KKK. I am stressing over this. Rosharon, Texas...Terrell Unit Bless you.it's really hard to choose. both are fantastic answers! thank you both more

Resolved Question: Should all the prisons in the US use the same Ruls and Regulations ?

like for instance Texas, Utah,Idaho, ect. use the same rules and regulations and the offenders be treated the same in all the US instead of all the states being separate and having different rules like same programs of rehabilitation. religion, paying or not paying for inmate labor, same Education like offering G.E.D. classes and College and so fourth more

Resolved Question: Why are inmates made to wear jumpsuits?

I was just wondering why inmates in many US jails and prisons are made to wear jumpsuits rather than a uniformed shirt and pants? I know that there are still a few prisons where pants and shirts are the norm, but many more now just give their inmates jumpsuits to wear. What is the reasoning behind this decision, and why are jumpsuits in Texas white in color? more

Resolved Question: Why do prison guards in Texas let inmates keep firearms and cellphones?

For instance, this story is merely the latest escape of a violent inmate from a Texas prison: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/02/texas.escaped.prisoner/ He somehow got ahold of a firearm, and hijacked a transport van while he was being transferred. According to other stories, hundreds of cellphones have been found inside of Texas prisons over the past few years, including on death row. This can't happen without guard corruption and cooperation, obviously. Why do Texas prison guards permit inmates to have firearms and cellphones? Why is this so common in Texas prisons compared to other states? Are Texans naturally more corrupt or something? I've read that many prison guards in east Texas are affiliated with Latino gangs, for example. more

Voting Question: Who's been bowing and scraping before world leaders besides Bush?

O-Bow-Ma? And how about all those saved, imaginary, jobs? Reality check? The Washington Examiner reports that more than 10 percent of the jobs the Obama administration claimed were "created or saved" by the stimulus are doubtful or imaginary. ABC News uncovered countless examples of bogus congressional districts listed as stimulus beneficiaries by the Obama stimulus tracking website, Recovery.gov. The money has been lavished on shady beauty schools in New Hampshire, prison inmates in Texas, and wind companies in Spain and China. Just this week, a California audit found that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overstated the number of jobs saved by federal stimulus dollars by upward of 13,000. Some people may have forgotten that Bush bowed and scraped a few times before the Saudi leaders a few months before all of Obama's apology tours. What do you think? ************************************************************************************************* more

Resolved Question: Who's been bowing and scraping before world leaders, now, besides Bush?

Resolved Question: how do i get an inmate transferred closer to home what is a hardship and what do i do about that?

my husband is in a texas prison and they just keep moving him all around further ad further every time and he has about a year in there i hope more

Resolved Question: i am trying to locate my dad what free sites are there?

I want to find my Dad . I have only met him 3 times in my life, the last time was in 1991. He lived in Texas at the time and from what i understand he came to visit because he was going to prison. i have done a search on texas prison inmate lookup and no results for his name were found. and i have done searches on so many people finder sites i couldnt begin to name them. it has been 18 years since i have seen him and after i stoped being mad at him for not being in my life i have wanted to find him and start some kind of relationship i want to know if i have any brothers and sisters and i want him to know that he has 3 wonderful grandchildren. i have contacted a private investigator and at this time i cant afford to pay his fee. are there any free people finder sites that i can search to find him. i dont have much information other than his name and i know what he was in prison for and he has a sister who lives or used to live in my hometown but i dont know her name more

Resolved Question: i need to see if bryan M. brothers had been released from prison. Inmate number 1425026?

He is supposed to be in Colorado City Texas and my children have not heard from him in months and ive searched for his inmate number and it says no results available more

Resolved Question: Sexual misconduct question to lawmen?

I am a Texas correctional officer, I work for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice TDCJ. My rank is Correctional Officer Level 3 and I work in the Eastham Prison unit, Eastham where Clyde Barrow was imprisoned. I have a question for all correctional officers and deputy sheriff's and jail officers out there? A lot of inmates here are disrespectful to our female correctional officers and they masturbate themselves before them and expose their private parts to them. All our female officers can do is write them a disciplinary case which will give these inmates more restriction and loss of privileges. But some of these inmates have so much disciplinary actions against them, that they no longer care and no longer obey. How do you deal with these perverts in other states? What do you'll do in this situation?I agree with you, these female officers are working in a prison that has male inmates. more

Resolved Question: is coffee served in texas state prisons? if not, why so? why wouldnt coffee be served in jails/prisons? is?

it dangerous for inmates? more

Resolved Question: How to locate which jail/prision a minor inmate is in?

hi, my ex bf is in jail, and i want to send him a letter, the only thing is that i have no idea what jail he is in, and i dont have a number to cantact his parents or family members. he is a minor (16years old) , and was sent to jail for being a by standard in a murder(shooting/agravated robers) <-- or so i was told im not 100% on it. the crime was done in either texas( the irving/ dallar are im gussing because thats where he lived) or somewhere in oklahoma. hes a 16year old , black male, name is antonio holmes. if you have any information on him, like news articles, or could help me find which jail/prison he is in Anwser this question, and either send me an email, or give me and email adress that i could contact you at if i have any further questions. this help would be greatly apprecated ! and 10 points to the best. PS i have tryed a few of thoes inmate searches and have come up empty handed( im guessing because he is under 18) i have no was of contacting his parents I KNOW THIS QUESTION DOESNT BELONG IN THIS SECTION BUT IT IS THE ONLY PLACE IT GETS NOTICED, PLEASE DONT REPORT, OR HAVE DELETED. SORRY AND THANK YOU. 10POINTS =) more

Resolved Question: How to locate which jail/prision an inmate is in?

Voting Question: what site can i go t to find [texas] prison inmates for free without having to create an account or pay?

i have a friend in prison i havent seen or heard from in a while, and i've been to a few sites and they all require some sort of payment or membership or something like that. i just want to get in there and see a picture of him or a way to contact him or SOMETHING. PLEASE if you know reply to this more

Resolved Question: Would removing marijuana prohibition be the way to pay for national healthcare?

Taxes now pay about $35-40,000 per year to house prison inmates. Dollars spent on building prisons could build new medical facilities and pay for more nurses and doctors. Money spent by the DEA can pay for staff. The new industry can create more jobs. Taxes from sales can pay those salaries. Sales can pay new industry employees. And this isn't even counting the new industries, innovations and solutions created from legalizing its hemp cousin: energy, materials, food sources, animal feed sources - all created from hemp, for a simple list. All of the answers and solutions are available within our reach. Not to mention the reductions, likely, in alcohol-related problems, and medical and health issues created therefrom. If Texas elects Kinky Friedman(D) as governor the state could become a model for the entire country.That "dumb stoner" argument has no merit and I really doubt those numbers of $ have really ever been accounted in a non-biased way I hear about drug busts every so often with marijuana found of $500 million in street value, that has absolutely ZERO effect on availability th fact remains that currently we feed and house hundreds of thousands of people a year in prison we pay salaries of hundreds of thousands of people in the industry gangs in Mexico bring in billions of dollars per year in sales, even after these enormous law enforcement hauls these dismissive arguments just seem the more nonsensical especially now with the current health care funding debates why cause more harm to peoples' lives when we can be helping so many?>>Because that argument could then be used for making anything legal, as long as you have the money to pay. It also prevents people arguing for medical MJ, because it will hurt poor people that need medicine.<< anything available for those who can pay? It's called a free market. And I can't think of a cheaper medicine than one grown on one's ownAnd the idea that home grown would harm a mass market product is also totally without merit as evidenced by the fact that home brew beer has hardly put a dent into budweiser. Quite the opposite, as micro-brew beer companies have skyrocketed, being a boon for small business growth more

Resolved Question: Do Prisoners have rights?

Can Prison systems make prisoners do anything they want? In Louisiana, they said "they make inmates ride bulls". Is that cruel and unusual. Do prisoners have rights? They're still living and breathing human beings. Do prisons have rights to embarras them? BTW, I live in Texas, and our prison systems are like Saudi Arabia's. more

Voting Question: Where can prison inmate get grant for education in Texas?

Resolved Question: does anyone know of a prison in Texas a long time ago that had a mass riot?

I think it was Texas anyway... There was a huge riot where inmates were killing each other and the staff left the building. I think it could have been in the 80's but am not sure. I know this is a bit vague but I saw a documentary on it years ago and can't remember what it was called.. Any ideas would be appreciated :-) more

Resolved Question: why should we let them go early just to save a few bucks?what do you think?

By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer – Fri Jun 19, 4:44 pm ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation. The idea faces certain hurdles — for one thing, commuting some sentences will require court approval — and immigration authorities warn that a mass release of inmates from California and other states could swamp the federal system, which is already at capacity. But Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Lisa Page said: "Every dollar not spent to house an undocumented immigrant inmate is a dollar that can be spent on health care services and education and other important programs to Californians. These inmates are the federal government's responsibility and California taxpayers shouldn't be paying the bill." In recent years, other states have struck agreements with federal authorities to deport some inmates before their sentences were up, but those releases were done on a much smaller scale than what California is proposing. The state's plan would involve as many as 19,000 inmates. Those among them who committed sex offenses or violent crimes would not be eligible for early release, Page said Friday. Nearly 65,000 immigrants — most of them in the U.S. illegally — are serving time in the U.S. for state crimes. Once immigrants have done their time in state prison, the federal government takes custody of most of them and begins deportation proceedings against them, either because they are illegal immigrants or because they committed crimes while in the U.S. legally. The government reimburses states for some of the expenses involved in imprisoning immigrants, but states say the money is not nearly enough to cover their costs. Schwarzenegger is proposing to commute the sentences of thousands of immigrants and transfer them to federal custody over the next 12 months to help close a state budget gap projected at more than $24 billion. The savings would be a pittance for California — just $182 million if all 19,000 inmates now being held for immigration authorities were released — but Schwarzenegger is looking to save every dime he can. He already has proposed eliminating health care for poor children. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the 33,000 federal detention cells across the country already are full, and immigration judges could be overloaded if the number of deportation cases balloons. California Corrections spokesman Seth Unger said that to avoid overwhelming the federal system, the state would keep its inmates behind bars until their deportation hearings were over and their appeals exhausted. In that way, they could be deported almost immediately after being turned over to federal authorities. Since more than 70 percent of California's immigrant inmates are from Mexico, deporting them would typically involve putting them on a bus. Officials in other states, including Oregon and Washington, are considering similar moves. "The fiscal realities that Florida and California and other states are facing will probably put great pressure on trying to reduce the prison population," said Michael Ramage, general counsel for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. "Why should the state be saddled with the expense of having to provide a place for these people to be incarcerated while they wait to be deported?" Most of these released inmates are unlikely to serve additional time once they are home. That is one reason governors of some states are not about to follow Schwarzenegger's example. "That's just not happening here in Texas," said Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Officials with the Mexican consulate in Sacramento expressed concern that thousands of ex-convicts could be deported to Mexico. "In the event that this happens, we will make sure that it takes place in an orderly and safe manner, and that the rights of all deportees, regardless of their migratory status, are observed and respected unconditionally," Consul General Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez said. Schwarzenegger can single-handedly commute the sentences of 3,200 of them who were convicted of nonviolent, non-sexual offenses. Releasing more serious and repeat offenders early requires approval from the state Supreme Court. For weeks, the Schwarzenegger administration left open the possibility that violent and sex offenders could be released too. But on Friday, in response to inquiries from The Associated Press, Schwarzenegger's spokeswoman said the governor has ruled that out. Schwarzenegger's proposal was prompted in part by President Barack Obama's May budget proposal to end the $400 million program that pays states and counties for holding illegal more

Voting Question: Can a dna test be performed on an inmate in Texas prisons to find out if he is my son?

Resolved Question: pg woman in prison wants 2 give me baby, would i be able to adopt this baby if i'm not a relative of the woman?

my aunts friend went to prison expeting a child, she is 8 wks pg, and does not want her baby she just sign over custody and all rights to her mother of her two other children, her mother doesnt want custody of the new baby. So my aunt told her about me trying to have a baby for the past two years and had two m/c, and that i may e intrested in takin her baby... well , i am intrested but will the state of texas allow me to take this baby whn born? and will she be able to choose who she wants to give baby up to? please help i'm trying to gather as much information as possible to hopes of starting my journey... i'll be visiting the inmate in two weeks to get to know her and buil a bond with her.... i hope everything well and i'd be able to.. more

Resolved Question: Morality Question: Is it possible to go to prison and NOT become a “Racist”?

Morality Question: Is it possible to go to prison and NOT become a “Racist”? In my personal opinion and experience, the answer is a resounding NO. Why? Here are several of a myriad of reasons, edited for content to fit your screen: - Loud pounding on Dayroom metal tables to simulate drums, accompanied by even louder Ebonical “Rap” lyrics. Total disrespect . - Blatant and public exposure to mad masturbation upon both female and male guards through plexiglass Dayroom windows, with total disregard & disrespect to other prisoners . - Sexual acts perpetrated against both food and beverages by certain “Sexual-Pervert” classes of inmates inadvertently assigned to working in the kitchen . - Monopolizing the TV with constant Basketball & Sports shows, interspersed only by a daily ritualized morning viewing of 8-year-old Figure Skaters, both male & female . - Getting the entire prison facility “Locked-Down” for 1-3 months due to gang wars between the same ethnic factions. “Johnnys” (2 stale peanut-butter sandwiches in a sack constituting a “meal”) are NOT tasty, “Nome Sane” ? - There are many more, but you get the idea. Bear in mind that these disrespectful atrocities were noted in “Maximum-Security” units; one can but guess what heinous acts are perpetrated in the so-called “Minimum-Security” units, where any form of organized supervision is even more lax. - In Texas alone, there are so many prison units that the TDCJ System could assign units to each Ethnic group alone, and avoid much of the strife and killings that result from this racial conflict. But, Texas being Texas, they won’t. The State of Texas loves killing and attrition, “Nome Sane”? (Ebonic for “You know what I’m saying?” ) TDC # 231531 TDC # 299366 CDC # D-82038 TDCJ # 716246 Any “Politically-Incorrect” rational thoughts on the matter? more

Resolved Question: If you live in Texas or has ever worked in a prison in texas, or could help me, please do!?

My grandma used to work in Huntsville prison as a nurse, around the 80's and early 1990's. When she moved to my town a few years ago, she would only talk about one inmate, she said he called himself "the baddest man in texas" The only description I have of him is that he was an african american, who would kill people before he was sentenced to death, so that way he could be put on trial and he could live longer. She at one point had a confrontation with him, in which while he was heading for a trial, he bumped into her and told her to get out of his way. He eventually died, but I have always wondered who he is because I couldn't ask my grandma because she past away a few years ago. If you know anything about this man,or what his name is, please help me out.she worked as a nurse, but im not sure what unit more

Resolved Question: hutchins prison in texas rating?

my boyfriend has 180 days at hutchins prison and i'm kinda worried about how they treat the inmates there anyone knows or have been there more

Resolved Question: is there a place i can find someones criminal records for free?missouri has casenet but im looking for texas?

im trying to find someone who is in jail in texas,not prison and i wanna see his court records and the charges ive tried to do a inmate search in the county and his last name nor his cid number works and i know hes there. more

Resolved Question: Critique my essay..I know it's kinda long..it's on the death penalty?

In the United States of America 34 states have the death penalty. The United States federal government and the United States military also have the death penalty on the books. Critics argue that not only is it a barbaric practice based on vengeance, it is potentially unconstitutional and it makes no economical sense whatsoever with our current recession going on. Supporters of capital punishment argue that it provides closure to victim’s families and that it provides an effective deterrent to violent crime. Adherents of capital punishment believe that the death penalty provides justice in the sense that the punishment fits the crime, i.e. if you kill someone the state has the ability to take your life. Supporters argue that the death penalty serves as a discouragement against future violent crime for this same reason. Supporters also argue that with the improvements in DNA technology, the odds of an innocent person going to Death Row is roughly 1 in 100 since DNA technology is 99% effective. I believe that the United States government must ban this primitive practice. The 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars the use of “cruel and unusual” punishment. I consider injecting someone with a lethal cocktail of drugs that can cause extreme pain to be cruel and unusual. Sometimes it takes over an hour and a half to find a vein suitable for administering the deadly drug, and even after the drugs are finally given something can still go wrong. Ángel Nieves Díaz, a death row inmate in Florida in 2006, was subject to a botched execution in which not one, but two lethal injections were given to him. The ordeal lasted 34 minutes. An internal investigation later concluded that the executioner failed to properly administer the needle, which prevented the drugs from reaching Diaz’s organs the first time around. That was not an isolated incident; there have been numerous botched executions across the country, including the execution of a Georgian man named John Hightower in 2007, which took nearly an hour to be completed. Morality is subjective of course, but one thing we cannot argue with is the cold hard fact that it cost more to put a man or woman on death row than it does to send them to a maximum security prison for life. It costs the state of Texas $3.2 Million to put a person on death row, three times more than it does to put a person in a single cell maximum security prison for life. If not out of morality we should abolish the death penalty in the name of fiscal responsibility. As for the argument that the death penalty is a deterrent to violent crime, a study by the University of Vermont shows that per 100,000 people the murder rate was actually lower in non-death penalty states than in states with the death penalty for the year 1999. States without the death penalty had a murder rate of 3.6 and states with the death penalty had a murder rate of 5.5 on average. I urge the American people to end this barbarism by abolishing capital punishment. We must stop killing our fellow citizens in the name of justice. Life imprisonment is a more humane and effective punishment. In robbing someone of their life because we deem them “unworthy” to live we as a nation become no better than a nation of thugs. As Thomas Fuller, a 17th century theologian, once said, “In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”Thanks for taking the time.Thank you very much. :)There are paragraph breaks in the actual essay.. more

Resolved Question: Is there any specific laws pertaining to Prison Inmates and.....?

A book writer writing a documentary about an inmate at a Texas prison....no interviews with the inmate will be requested the only information gained will be through letter correspondence. Are there any laws I should know about ahead of time or loop holes?W0W Sparkle that made so much sense i'm sure you will be voted for best answer! *sarcasim at its finest) more

Resolved Question: Whats the per-inmate cost for texas prisons?

Whats the per-inmate cost for texas prisons? does any one have a official link or know where i can find the per-inmate cost? yearly/daily for texas? i have looked in the texas department of justice site and cant find it. Any lawyers know where i can find this statistics? also any statistics on probation and re-offenders like how many re-offend and how long is the average of a probation till they do offend?....i need 2008 stats please help... more

Resolved Question: whats the per-inmate cost for texas prisons?

does any one have a official link or know where i can find the per-inmate cost? yearly/daily for texas? i have looked in the texas department of justice site and cant find it. Any lawyers know where i can find this statistics? also any statistics on probation and re-offenders like how many re-offend and how long is the average of a probation till they do offend?....i need 2008 stats please help... more

Resolved Question: Can God forgive or would God forgive if.............?

A friend of mine has lived a nightmare of a life. At one point, he was making a six figure salary at Ford Motors and was being flown all over the world for training. He had reached the pinnacle of success even before reaching the age of 23. Years later, go ends up in Texas on a weapon charge, not murder or rape, and was given ten years. While in prison, he was beaten mercilessly because he would not join any gang. Because he was a white , one notorious Latin gang broke most of the bones in his face and told him that he either kill or be killed. He was their exterminator. He told me that the prison guards are always in on it, for they would arrange for the person to be killed. He could not ask for help, for it was a death warrant. Who was he going to ask, the guards? Now that he is out and is no longer under any threats from the gangs, he feels sorry for what he has done. He was never truly violent or aggressive. Even today, he is mild mannered. I told him that I really could not speak with authority, for the very thought of being forced to kill or be killed is somthing I do not want to face. However, this is not his reality. I told him that God can forgive anything, but I basically kept rambling because somebody's child, brother, husband, father, cousin, grandson, boyfriend and the likes was killed in cold blood. Regardless of the circumstances, they are still dead!! The only thing I could hang my hat on was the fact that he was made to do it. He could not tell the authorities, for they were as corrupted as the gangs. He said that the gaurds are always paid off in cash. Some purcahse new trucks from monies directly from inmates. My question to you, is what do I tell him? How do I address something as serious as this? Can God actually and is willing to forgive this? Is this similar to our soldiers who are coming home and having killed not just the enemy but women and children in Iraq? They are put in a position where they have to do things that they would not ordinarily do. You tell me!!! more

Resolved Question: Is isolation of prisoners in solitary confinement fair?

Those in favor of isolating prisoners in solitary confinement units argue that it creates a safer environment to separate repeat violent offenders from the rest of the prison population. Tom Stickrath, the director of the Ohio Department of Youth Services, stresses in Long Terms in Solitary Can Warp Minds, Critics Say that “solitary confinement has helped prevent chronically violent offenders from further harming other inmates or staff members.” The views of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice are presented in the article After Years in Solitary, Freedom Hard to Grasp. Officials there “believe that isolation continues to be the best way to prevent violence among gang members” and that it has “helped to reduce homicides in state prisons.” In Return of the Madhouse the author points out that “proponents of the supermax system claim that its introduction has reduced violence in the general prison population—both by removing the most hard-core miscreants and also by introducing a fearsome deterrent to misbehavior.” Those opposed to isolating prisoners in solitary confinement units claim that the effect of isolation on inmates puts the public in greater danger when the prisoners are eventually released. Stuart Grassian, a psychiatrist who has studied the long-term effects of solitary confinement, asserts in From Extreme Isolation, Waves of Felons Are Freed that “Our system has succeeded in making prisoners as agitated and violent as humanly possible….What people forget is that 95% of these (inmates) get out at some point. These people have no clue about how to get along in a real-life setting.” The article Does Separation Equal Suffering? reveals that “stress from isolation” has contributed to a rise in the number of prisoner suicides. The author of The Paradox of Supermax examines how the use of solitary confinement by the “nation’s toughest prisons may be driving inmates mad—and in the process, making all of us less safe.” http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-sub-display?id=SVC00090-0-7589&auth_checked=Y&gov=N&ic=N&keyno=0000020864&leadiss=Y&lnk=N&ren=N&res=Y&taglist=0000205506ART0000274601ART0000193606ART0000275843ART0000089652ART&detail=Y&method=lexdesc&cat=pov&pos=1&num=25# I THINK IT IS NOT FAIR, what about u? more

Resolved Question: What kind of POSITIVE things cans you do with your time in prison?

(in Texas Prisons) Can you get a degree?? Can you learn a skill?? What?? Also ....... do you happen to know what can be sent to an inmate?? Books?? Etc....... more

Resolved Question: ok Conservatives now that the election is over i was trying not to say anything so i wont get suspended by a?

troll, but if an Innocent person dies in prison is that the same as execution or more like murder,? or is it Politics as usual,? AUSTIN, Texas – A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen. State District Judge Charles Baird ordered Timothy Cole's record expunged. Cole was convicted of raping a Texas Tech University student in Lubbock in 1985 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He died in 1999 at age 39 from asthma complications. DNA tests in 2008 connected the crime to Jerry Wayne Johnson, who is serving life in prison for separate rapes. Johnson testified in court Friday that he was the rapist in Cole's case and asked the victim and Cole's family to forgive him. "I'm responsible for all this. I'm truly sorry for my pathetic behavior and selfishness. I hope and pray you will forgive me," Johnson said. The Innocence Project of Texas said Cole's case was the first posthumous DNA exoneration in state history. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_re_us/dna_exoneration_dead_inmatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtwXlIwozog&feature=PlayList&p=AFC25E0410AE5A51&index=21 more

Resolved Question: Would you possibly believe your jobs are NOT being sent overseas?

If I said your jobs are NOT being sent overseas and the US now underbids the lowest of the low of the Asian sweatshops you might say I'm crazy, but the reality is that your jobs are being outsourced not to foreign nations, but to the PIC, Prison Industrial Complex. Federal Prison Industries, FPI now sells inmate produced goods globally and to you in stores all over the land then simply labels them as "Made In China" and other foreign markets. Isn't that sweet? The job you might expect to be paid a living wage is sent to slaves in our prisons and 3/4ths of these slaves would never qualify for prison in Europe, but do in the US. How could a system that built thousands of new prisons possibly pay for them when tax payers could barely afford the ones we had in the 70's and 80s? Slave labor. I don't know how many remembered the big "outcry" to keep inmates in prison longer and longer and to stop releasing "violent inmates" back in the 80's and 90's, but that wasn't because crime rates went up and it wasn't because judges went soft on crime at all. Juries never decided to let the bad guys go scott-free because of some imagined sympathy. Instead we were sold the proverbial pig with lipstick on a grand scale. Oh sure, there was the occasional inmate who was released only to reoffend, but the numbers never told the truth because those were and still are the exception rather than the rule. Prosecutors didn't suddenly become better lawyers and defense layers didn't suddenly become blathering idiots. Judges had sentencing common sense yanked away and every crime now has a prescribed number of days, months or years on the books and many of them are so unreasonable you couldn't possibly believe them even if you read them. The truth is the public was sold a bill of sale and told we lived in constant fear of crime while our jobs were being outsourced to slave labor in American prisons. Ironically crime rates never really went up the entire time and FBI statistics prove that. At least 37 states have legalized the contracting out of prison labor to private corporations that set up operations inside state prisons. (The number is much higher now) The list of these prisons’ business clients reads like a Who’s Who of Corporate America: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T Wireless, Texas Instruments, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target stores, and on and on and on and...on. In 1994 state prisoners produced over $900 million worth of goods and services. (God only can guess that number now) With the vast increase in corporate use of prison labor, this may very well be fifty or even a thousand times that now, but is surely in the hundreds of billions now. This does not include the value of services performed by prisoners just to maintain the prison. If the state had to pay outside labor even the legal minimum wage for this work, it would cost far more than the states pay prisoners. Many pay nothing for this prison maintenance work. There are at least seven distinct ways profits are wrenched out of this vast U.S. prison population: (1) Goods and services produced inside prisons by prison labor and sold by federal, state and local prisons/jails either to other government agencies, or on the open market or as exports abroad; (2) The contracting out of prison labor (both inside and outside prisons) to private corporations at slave labor wages; (3) The creation of vast new private prison corporations that profit both from housing inmates from state prisons as well as from using these inmates as forced prison labor; (4) The construction of new prisons, using both prison and non-prison labor; (5) Interest paid to banks and Wall Street investment houses on loans for the construction and upkeep of new prisons, both public and private; (6) The venders of supplies to prison industries; (7) The pay telephone racket set up inside prison walls by private phone companies for collect calls by prisoners to the outside world. All these profiteers combined comprise what is now commonly defined as the Prison-Industrial Complex, one of the biggest growth industries in the U.S. This multi-billion dollar industry has its own trade shows, conventions, web sites, mail order catalogues, direct marketing campaigns, architectural firms, construction firms, Wall Street investment houses, plumbing supply companies, food service companies, and outfits selling "prison-specific" products: bullet-resistant security cameras, padded cells in "vast color selections," belts and shackles ("special for juveniles"), body orifice security scanners, razor wire, etc., etc. This industry even has its own Yellow Pages, with a list of over 1,000 venders. All this is largely based on the non-violent offenders (two-thirds of the two million) who, by even European capitalist standards, should not be in prison at all. Here many inmates origina more

Resolved Question: inmate/staff relationship laws...in TEXAS?

I was working at a prison and I got into a relationship with an inmate there. I know inmate staff relationships are highly illegal, so I resigned from my position under investigation. Can I still get in legal trouble for dating the inmate? For talking to him on the phone or writing him letters? Thanks!we never had any physical contact at all and they didnt find any proof while i still worked there. They found my cell number on him 3 days after i quit. more

Resolved Question: In Texas, Can I still get in legal trouble?

I was working at a prison and I fell in love with an inmate there. I know inmate staff relationships are highly illegal, so I resigned from my position under investigation. Can I still get in legal trouble for dating the inmate? For talking to him on the phone or writing him letters? Thanks!There is no proof of anything and we never had any sexual contact... more

Resolved Question: Why Wont So Called Christians Release Repentant Criminals? ?

Why Wont So Called Christians Release Repentant Criminals? Concerning Matthew 18:25-35 Please read and pay attention to whole detail of outline so you won’t give a stupid response. Their are practical forms of legislation and social reasoning that can confirm the logos behind what you may deem in prejudice ridiculous Please Don't resort to stupid insults and slander either Think of it this way can you say that when you’re spiritual you refuse those seeking mercy and charity and condemn those who ask for it to hell. Can you say when you’re feeling nostalgic that incarceration prevents crime and repeat offenses? Recidivism rates would argue against your flawed logic. Can you state that change of behavior and rehabilitation comes from external means or is it an internal development? That being said why would anyone believe in changing their behavior when they have no reason to and while they dislike prison it really fairs little punishment but to those few who are preyed on and many of them are divided from population(Some however are not and receive unfair cruel and unusual punishment). So why should anyone want to change or believe in god when we ourselves show hypocrisy in our hearts and actions how then can such individuals make internal changes needed for true rehabilitation that without released into society after incarcerated actually makes the public more a danger from the inmate who has become psychologically warped from the lifestyle of incarceration and given little helpful tools but to network and make more contacts creating a more intelligent and dangerous criminal Now for legislative logos statistics show increased cost of funding in criminal justice and punishment has in no way reduced crime in fact just the opposite we are seeing a trend of increase 5 times the average we are also seeing a dramatic increase in cost and prison over crowding while sociology experiments are showing that merciful acts in state show a dramatic reduction in crime such examples were taken during the Vietnam war and drug rehab center legislation prior to mandatory minimum sentence concluding it just feels good and costs a lot in fact white color crimes are said to be more expensive to jail then a hospital bill and drug offenders on average are more expensive to jail then rehab programs Yes put away violent offenders but their are alternative punishments to non violent offenders or at least reduced sentencing The real question we should be asking ourselves is what is the correlation between incarceration and crime rates experts say their is none that incarceration does not equal change in behavior so for all our incarceration are we really safer experts say no Can we draw out a public safety plan that is fiscally sane remember your flipping the bill for these people The answer is yes many bills offering programs without sentence or reduced sentence are offered part of religious rehabilitation program even with violent offenders in church services and anger management but because of republicans and conservative Christians this bill has been shot down Also we must come to the moral realization that prison is in no way fair punishment I mean that the punishment is not equal to all inmates and that constitutes a moral ethic of unequal punishment both in Case judgment and sentencing and prison accommodationas as well for a select minority cruel and unusual Prison does not fair equal to all people You have leaders soldiers fish etc not preventing such action of prison gangs running prisons is unconstitutional under the eight, ninth and tenth amendments in the bill of rights I think corporal punishment if agreed upon should be administered by government not by underground seedy organizations like prison gangs that are obviously cruel and unusual in addition safety regulation has occurred for prison inmates increasing Co Officers and was effective in Texas but the law was later removed by you guessed it Conservative Christian republicans Quote: To repeat same activity expecting different result is insanity. Do we not do that with the aspect of incarceration seeing only increase in prison populations? Note: The Separation of church and state is just a clause How Is Church and State Divided? Ok I know The U.S Constitution right; the first Amendment Congress shall pass no law that is in favor of any religion. but isn't American economics founded on the protestant ethos and don't we have to swear oaths in courts Don't we say god in the pledge of allegiance does it not say in god we trust on our printed money Don't we pass state laws favorable to monotheism like abortion and bans on gay marriage like prop 8 politically hiding it's involvement as to make lies successful like saying it's about the definition of marriage which it was not It was about civil liberty in making a amendment to the state Constitution because a law regarding same sex marriage was over tuned in four case precedents from judges in N more

Voting Question: how to verify an inmate in texas?

a friend of mine is in jail at the moment and he sent me a letter and asked me to write but he says i have to go online to verify his location.he is at a prison transfer unit called west garza,in texas. he didn't tell me in the letter how to do this and i don't have any idea so can anyone help me? thanks more

Resolved Question: Why Wont So Called Christian’s Release Repentant Criminals from Prison?

Matthew18:25-35 says you’re a hypocrite if you do and will burn in hell. Also Jesus is father and son this is his direct quote Also Please read and pay attention to whole detail of outline so you won’t give a stupid response. Please Don't resort to stupid insults and slander either Now for logos statistics show increased cost of funding in criminal justice and punishment has in no way reduced crime in fact just the opposite we are seeing a trend of increase 5 times the average we are also seeing a dramatic increase in cost and prison over crowding while sociology experiments are showing that merciful acts in state show a dramatic reduction in crime such examples were taken during the Vietnam war and drug rehab center legislation prior to mandatory minimum sentence concluding it just feels good and costs a lot in fact white color crimes are said to be more expensive to jail then a hospital bill and drug offenders on average are more expensive to jail then rehab programs Yes put away violent offenders but their are alternative punishments to non violent offenders or at least reduced sentencing The real question we should be asking ourselves is what is the correlation between incarceration and crime rates experts say their is none that incarceration does not equal change in behavior so for all our incarceration are we really safer experts say no Can we draw out a public safety plan that is fiscally sane remember your flipping the bill for these people The answer is yes many bills offering programs without sentence or reduced sentence are offered part of religious rehabilitation program even with violent offenders in church services and anger management but because of republicans and conservative Christians this bill has been shot down Also we must come to the moral realization that prison is in no way fair punishment I mean that the punishment is not equal to all inmates and that constitutes a moral ethic of un equal punishment as well as for a select minority cruel and unusual I think corporal punishment if agreed upon should be administered by government not by underground seedy organizations like prison gangs that are obviously cruel and unusual in addition safety regulation has occurred for prison inmates increasing Co Officers and was effective in Texas but the law was later removed by you guessed it conservator Christian republicans Note: The Separation of church and state is just a clause How Is Church and State Divided? Ok I know The U.S Constitution right; the first Amendment Congress shall pass no law that is in favor of any religion. but isn't American economics founded on the protestant ethos and don't we have to swear oaths in courts Don't we say god in the pledge of allegiance does it not say in god we trust on our printed money Don't we pass state laws favorable to monotheism like abortion and bans on gay marriage like prop 8 politically hiding it's involvement as to make lies successful like saying it's about the definition of marriage which it was not It was about civil liberty in making a amendment to the state Constitution because a law regarding same sex marriage was over tuned in four case precedents from judges in Northern California What about state and Federal grants and tax subsidy to Jewish and Christen churches what happened to Islam or pagan covens what happened to Buddhist and Hindu temples why are they not funded or given relief what happened to catholic parishes Why have republicans become political candidates of conservative Christian’s Why do we always attribute morality and god to our wars or political projects Why cant we remain in logos of political movements why did feminism take so long why was prohibition passed why do we have a fiscally insane war policy on drugs and terrorism more

Voting Question: Youth Prisons In Texas?

Can anyone give me the names of some youth prisons in Texas? Ones with inmates typically under the age of say 30. This is for a research project and I cant find a list of youth prisons. more

Resolved Question: Why Wont So Called Christan's Release Repentant Criminals From Prison ?

Matthew18:25-35 says your a hypocrite if you do and will burn in hell. Now for logos statistics show increased cost of funding in criminal justice and punishment has in no way reduced crime in fact just the opposite we are seeing a trend of increase 5 times the average we are also seeing a dramatic increase in cost and prison over crowding while sociology experiments are showing that merciful acts in state show a dramatic reduction in crime such examples were taken during the vietnam war and drug rehab center legislation prior to mandatory minimum sentence concluding it just feels good and costs a lot in fact white color crimes are said to be more expensive to jail then a hospital bill and drug offenders on average are more expensive to jail then rehab programs Yes put away violent offenders but their are alternative punishments to non violent offenders or at least reduced sentencing The real question we should be asking ourselves is what is the correlation between incarceration and crime rates experts say their is none that incarceration does not equal change in behavior so for all our incarceration are we really safer experts say no Can we draw out a public safety plan that is fiscally sane remember your flipping the bill for these people The answer is yes many bills offering programs without sentance or reduced sentence are offered part of relgious rehabilitation program even with viloent offenders in church services and anger management but because of republicans and conservative christains this bill has been shot down Also we must come to the moral realiztion that prison is in no way fair punishment I mean that the punishment is not equal to all inmates and that constuties a moral ethic of un equal punishment as well as for a select minority cruel and unusual I think corpal punishment if agreed upon should be adminstered by government in addition safety regulation has occured in texas but the bill was later removed by you guessed it conservite christain republicans Note: The Seperation of church and state is just a clause How Is Church and State Divided? Ok I know The U.S Constitution right but isn't american economics founded on the protestant ethos and don't we have to swear oaths in courts Don't we say god in the pledge of allegiance does it not say in god we trust on our printed money Don't we pass state laws favorable to monotheism like abortion and bans on gay marriage like prop 8 politically hiding it's involvement as to make lies successful like saying it's about the definition of marriage which it was not It was about civil liberty in making a amendment to the state Constitution because a law regarding same sex marriage was over tuned in four case precedents from judges in Northern California What about state and Federal grants and tax cuts to jewish and Christan churches what happened to islam or pagan covens what happened to buddhist and hindu temples why are they not funded or given relief what happened to catholic parishes Why have republicans become political candidates of conservative Christan's Why do we always attribute morality and god to our wars or political projects Why cant we remain in logos of political movements why did feminism take so long why was prohibition passed why do we have a fiscally insane war policy on drugs and terrorism more

Resolved Question: Will this stick to Cheney?

Cheney charged over jail 'abuses' A Texas grand jury has charged US Vice-President Dick Cheney for "organised criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of private prison inmates. The indictment says Mr Cheney - who has invested $85m (£56m) in a company that holds shares in for-profit prisons - conspired to block an investigation. The indictment has not been seen by a judge, who could dismiss it. Mr Cheney's spokeswoman declined to comment, saying his office had not yet received a copy of the charges. One Texas lawyer said the charges were politically motivated. 'Conflict of interest' The indictment was overseen by county District Attorney Juan Guerra, an outgoing prosecutor at the end of his term of office. He cites the case of Gregorio De La Rosa, who died on 26 April, 2001 inside a private prison in Willacy County, Texas. The grand jury in Willacy County, near the US-Mexico border, accuses Mr Cheney of committing "at least misdemeanour assaults" of inmates by allowing other inmates to assault them. It said there was a "direct conflict of interest" because Mr Cheney had influence over federal contracts awarded to prison companies. US grand juries weigh evidence to decide whether a case is worthy of being sent for a full trial, before issuing formal charges known as indictments. The three-page indictment also alleges that former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "used his position...to stop the investigations as to the wrong doings." more

Resolved Question: Is Cheney as evil as Bush?

A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for "organized criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons. It was a grand jury that brought the indictment, their reason was that "we love our country" more

Voting Question: Need your help!!! Please I need your opinion!?

Okay I need a write a 2 paragraph report on criminal justice. My report is about a death row inmate who calls a senator from a cell phone the prison had to be lockdown!! Okay I wrote the report tell me what you think! TX Prisons Locked Down After Death Row Inmate Calls Senator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The phone call Texas State Sen. John Whitmire received two weeks ago was far from ordinary, with clanging steel doors and hollering. The caller wanted to prove that he was on Texas' death row, says the Austin American-Statesman. Calling from what is supposed to be the most secure part of Texas' prison system, the caller told Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, that he knew that Whitmire had two daughters. The caller also knew their ages and where they lived in Houston, among other personal details the convict said he had gleaned from the Internet. "Frankly, that scared the hell out of me," said Whitmire, who quickly notified authorities. Yesterday, authorities busted Richard Lee Tabler in his death row cell and charged him with possession of the phone. Investigators said more than 2,800 calls were made on the phone during the past month alone. Authorities suspect that at least nine other inmates on death row may have used the phone to make calls - more than 300 by one convict alone. Gov. Rick Perry ordered the entire prison system to be be locked down and that all inmates, staff, and visitors be searched for contraband. Authorities jailed Tabler's mother after she arrived from her home in Georgia. She faces a criminal charge after authorities said she helped get the phone to her son. more

Resolved Question: how do you find inmate in texas prison number?

Resolved Question: Texas inmates? prison v. jail?

Someone told me that inmates in Texas have the option of going to jail (instead of prison) if they pay for their incarceration. Is this true? Someone said it costs like $40-60 a day if an inmate's family is willing to pay for them to go to jail instead of prison.....Does that mean jail is preferable to prison? If so, why? What's the difference? Isn't a cell a cell? Can a convict really choose jail over prison? more

Resolved Question: when your in prison can you have physical contact with the inmate?

my mother in law is in jail right now for a felony but she is getting trasnsfered to prison thursday. okay so when we went to visit her yesterday we had to talk to her thru a phone and couldnt have physical contact with her so what i wanted to know was if when she goes to prison will she be able to hug her grandkids n kids or could we take her food or something???? we live in SAN ANTONIO , TEXAS more