Department of Criminal Injustice?

A former TDCJ employee sues, claiming gender discrimination

"...Michelle Lyons, former director of public information for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal-Justice Officials Get Spanked

Officials with Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board of Pardons and Paroles get tongue lashings during Lege hearing, where agency leaders were questioned about communication and coordination problems

"...Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Board..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal Justice: Cutting the Three Ps

"...If lawmakers want to reduce criminal justice spending, they'll have to cut the budget of..."

March 4, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

"...A pregnant employee of the Kyle PD shows up dead behind a Dumpster..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Travis County Primary Candidates Jockey to Champion Criminal Justice Change

A closer look at the heated District Attorney, County Attorney, and County Court at Law races

"...Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Criminal Justice Policy Folly

Perry signs executive order creating state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center, basically reconstituting Texas' Criminal Justice Policy Council, which he axed back in 2003

"...on Jan. 29 an executive order creating the state Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center to collect and analyze data..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kathy Mitchell Pushes for Criminal Justice Reform by Getting Serious About Being Compassionate

"...year when the dam finally broke, releasing a flood of public sentiment demanding true justice, the pent-up energies of..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Features Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Criminal Justice: Innocence Is No Defense

There are several dozen criminal justice reforms under consideration, and a handful might actually be enacted.

"...Matters of life and death have been the subject of passionate..."

April 11, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Death and drugs dominated the year for Austin police

"...1) New Year's Murder The murder of music fan extraordinaire Esme Barrera, inside her rented cottage..."

Jan. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Some died, some walked

"...1) SANDERS SHOOTING EVERLASTING We posted the city-redacted portions of the KeyPoint Government Solutions report critical of the Austin..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 9 Criminal Justice Stories

"...1) ANOTHER EASTSIDE SHOOTING In May, Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana fatally shot 18-year-old Nathaniel Sanders II in..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Criminal Justice: From Headlines to Humane

"...Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, would increase penalties for violent sexual offenses against children, including the possibility of the death penalty..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories

Freedom for the Kellers and Rosemary Lehmberg's wild ride

"...trial. Their release brings to a close one chapter of the notorious case in which the Kellers were accused..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Crimes of Motherhood

The crimes of women who gave birth in the TDCJ in 2003

"...Commercialized sexual offenses: 7..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature

Supreme Court OKs Use of Execution Drug

SCOTUS greenlights use of lethal injection drug midazolam

"...Court ruled 5-4 against four death row inmates (one of whom has since been executed) who sought to determine..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Exploring the Life and Death of Jennifer Cave in True Crime Podcast The Orange Tree

Former UT students Tinu Thomas and Haley Butler find a history of murder on campus

"...their conversations would inevitably circle back to the murder of Jennifer Cave, which occurred mere yards away, behind door..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Screens Feature by David Sotelo

The Other Side of Prison

Inmate Population Swells

"...state's inmate population grows, so, too, does the number of inmate families in Texas. At the end of 1998,..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Butts

How Did a Weeks-Old Justice Advocacy Group Catch the Ear of Police?

Longtime criminal justice advocates wonder why Austin police are so keen to work with the nascent JUST America

"...When members of a group calling itself JUST America were brought onstage..."

June 26, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Niche Justice

Travis County specialty courts try to break the cycle of crime

"...is, until she took the pill. "Within 15 minutes of taking that quaa­lude, everything changed," she recalled recently. "I..."

March 26, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Justice Department Begins Phase-Out of Private Prisons

Five Texas prisons currently under contract with federal government

"...The Federal Bureau of Prisons will "decline to renew the contract or substantially..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

‘Against the Grain’ of Justice

Committee hears testimony on treatment of young offenders

"...charged with a crime be processed through the adult criminal justice system – through the adult courts and, potentially,..."

March 25, 2014 News Post by Jordan Smith

UPDATE: Ott Asks DOJ For Review of Police Tactics

Request comes on heels of Jackson shooting death

"...UPDATE: In the wake of last month's police shooting death of Larry Eugene Jackson,..."

Aug. 5, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Death Watch: Executing Texas' Law of Parties

Jeff Wood never killed anybody; Robert Pruett may not have either. Why does the state want to put them both to death?

"...chamber, with executions stayed left and right, state Court of Criminal Appeals justices questioning the constitutionality of capital punishment,..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

'What Is Justice?'

A state program that enables offenders and their victims meet face-to-face has helped Andrew Papke take full responsibility for the drunken driving-related deaths of Beth Early and Daniel London.

"...a wooden table. To Early's right sits a stack of pictures of her daughter Beth, killed -- along with..."

Aug. 24, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Texas Justice

Book on Texas' Death Row Presents Just the Facts

"...no longer have to wait until the very end of the month to get spooked. All you have to..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Dick Holland

The Further Trials of Eroy Brown

Eroy Brown's parole is in the hands of the TDCJ

"...The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has a long memory...."

March 2, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...the only witnesses to his murder, the first murder of a Texas prison guard by an inmate since 1985,..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Bill of the Week: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Companion bills aims to give more local control of wire taps

"...In the waning days of the 83rd legislature, a companion pair of bills is..."

May 4, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Death Watch: As Execution Falls Out of Favor Nationwide, Texas Accelerates

State continues to execute priests and the intellectually disabled

"...For the first time in 23 years of polling, Gallup reports that a majority of Americans now..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: The Capital of Capital Punishment

Tilon Carter set for execution – again

"...Hunts­ville's gurney next Tuesday, May 16. Carter was convicted of capital murder in 2006 in Tarrant County, for the..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

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