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• Travis County, Texas: A Case Study on Video Visitation Prison Policy Initiative, April, 2016“While the majority rated their experience with video visitation as positive, almost all (91%) reported they would prefer face-to-face visitation.”
• Lethally Deficient: Direct Appeals in Texas Death Penalty Cases Texas Defender Service, 2016“Review by the U.S. Supreme Court was not sought in 34.6% of the cases surveyed, meaning that defense lawyers waived the first opportunity for federal review in more than a third of Texas death penalty cases decided on direct appeal between 2009 and 2015.”
• Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons Texas A&M University - School of Law, December, 2015“[M]y Article proposes eliminating egregious sanctions, providing courts flexibility to base fines on earning levels, and establishing procedures to enforce restrictions against incarcerating those who are truly unable to pay their criminal justice debt.”
• Suspended Childhood: An Analysis of Exclusionary Discipline of Texas' Pre-K and Elementary School Students Texas Appleseed, November, 2015“In the 2013-2014 school year, Texas schools issued 88,310 out-of-school suspensions to young children.”
• Explaining Texas' overnight prison boom Prison Policy Initiative, August, 2015“Throughout the 1980s, the Texas imprisonment rate closely matched the national imprisonment rate. But between 1993 and 1998, the Texas imprisonment rate almost doubled, causing Texas' total custody population to quickly escalate.”
• Invisible Women: Mass Incarceration's Forgotten Casualties Michele Goodwin, June, 2015“To place this in context, the U.S. jails more women than Russia, China, Thailand, and India combined. Nearly a third of the world's women inmates are incarcerated in the United States.”
• Unfinished Business: Deepening the Gains in Texas Juvenile Justice Reform Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, May, 2015“Reforms are needed to move the Texas Juvenile Justice Department and its 166 local juvenile probation departments in the right direction to keep more young people closer to their home (or in their home), where the data show they will have better outcomes.”
• Evaluation of Offenders Released in Fiscal Year 2011 That Completed Rehabilitation Tier Programs Texas Department of Criminal Justice, April, 2015“Five of the nine programs tracked showed a lower recidivism rate than the comparison group after the two year follow-up and seven showed a lower recidivism rate after three years.”
• Reckless Indifference: Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, March, 2015(This report highlights the extreme heat conditions in Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities, the treatment of heat-sensitive individuals, and the failed grievance system employed by the TDCJ.)
• A Solitary Failure: The Waste, Cost and Harm of Solitary Confinement ACLU of Texas, February, 2015“The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) confines 4.4 percent of its prison population in solitary confinement.”
• State Criminal Justice Advocacy in a Conservative Environment Sentencing Project, February, 2015“This overview highlights successful advocacy strategies employed in conservative political environments in the states of Indiana, Missouri, and Texas.”
• Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projections The State of Texas Legislative Budget Board, February, 2015“Adult state incarcerated populations are projected to remain stable throughout fiscal years 2015 to 2020 and to remain, on average, 0.7 percent below the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s internal operating capacity.”
• Closer to Home: An Analysis of the State and Local Impact of the Texas Juvenile Justice Reforms The Council of State Governments Justice Center, January, 2015“Youth incarcerated in state-run facilities are 21 percent more likely to be rearrested than those who remain under supervision closer to home.”
• Guidelines for Indigent Defense Caseloads: A Report to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission Public Policy Research Institute, January, 2015(The problems in providing criminal defense representation for the indigent in state courts are well documented. But of all the difficulties, none has proven more vexing than outrageously high caseloads of public defenders and sometimes private lawyers.)
• Designed to Break You: Human Rights Violations on Texas' Death Row Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, 2015“Every individual on Texas’ death row thus spends approximately 23 hours a day in complete isolation for the entire duration of their sentence, which, on average, lasts more than a decade.”
• Video Visitation: How Private Companies Push for Visits by Video and Families Pay the Price Grassroots Leadership; Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, October, 2014“Video-only visitation policies strip away that choice; they are simply another outgrowth of the idea that offering services to prisoners and their families can be commercialized.”
• Study of the TDCJ Offender Visitation Policies Texas Department of Criminal Justice, August, 2014“A temporary online survey was conducted from November 2013 to March 2014 to obtain feedback from the public regarding their past visitation experience.”
• Deadly Heat in Texas Prisons Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, April, 2014“Since 2007, at least fourteen inmates have died from extreme heat in nine different TDCJ prisons. All fourteen inmates had preexisting health circumstances that rendered them more vulnerable to heat-related illnesses...”
• Kids Doing Time for What's Not a Crime: The Over-Incarceration of Status Offenders Texas Public Policy Foundation, March, 2014“...there are very compelling reasons to avoid confinement of status offenders. The punishment fails to fit the”
• Safer, Smarter, and More Cost-Efficient Approaches to Reducing Crime in Texas Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, October, 2013“39% of people in prison (53,810 men and women) were incarcerated for a nonviolent, non-sexually based offense.”
• Smart on Sentencing, Smart on Crime: An Argument for Reforming Louisiana's Determinate Sentencing Laws Reason Foundation, Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Right on Crime, October, 2013“Today, Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the country, with 868 of every 100,000 of its citizens in prison.”
• The Texas Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Texas's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices American Bar Association, September, 2013“...since 1992, Texas has paid over $60 million to those it has wrongfully imprisoned...”
• The Comeback States: Reducing youth incarceration in the United States National Juvenile Justice Network and the Texas Public Policy Foundation, June, 2013“Six policies encourage reductions in reliance on detention and incarceration, including disallowing incarceration for minor offenses, and increasing the availability of evidence-based alternatives to incarceration.”
• Understanding and Addressing Youth Violence in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department Michelle Deitch, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, May, 2013“Although they represented 57% of TJJD's youth population, youth ages 17-18 committed only 44% of violations involving violence/escapes or riots/group disturbances in 2012. 14- 15-year olds were 12% of the population but 25% of serious violations.”
• Effective Approaches for Reducing Prostitution in Texas: Proactive and Cost-Efficient Strategies to Help People Leave the Streets Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, April, 2013“There have been no studies that have shown prostitution to be a significant danger to public safety, whereas a tradition of punitive responses to prostitution has clearly demonstrated the high social and economic costs.”

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