Lawmakers grill Connally Unit escape officials in Texas
Texas senators pressed prison system leaders over the Connally Unit escape near Kenedy on December 13. They fault potential administrator responsibility and question why a serious incident review did not criticize the warden as they seek reforms and accountability.
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Steve Ogden
R-Bryan
John Whitmire
D-Houston
Todd Staples
R-Palestine
Wayne Scott
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Senate Finance Committee
Carlos Truan
Corpus Christi
Mac Stringfellow
Texas Board of Criminal Justice
Truan
Police blotter of assaults and vehicle thefts reported
An 18-year-old woman was cut with a kitchen knife by someone she knew at 4 20 p.m. Monday. An 18-year-old man was arrested Monday for aggravated assault. Brandon Lynn Pourner of 4330 N Grandview is held on a 10000 bond. A 41-year-old woman reported a known woman took her 1990 Ford Aerostar at 6 p.m. Monday, later found and returned. Two juveniles arrested for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. A 40-year-old man, James Kurt Edwards of 3665 Dixie No 2, held on bonds totaling 9000 on two UUSMV charges and one possession charge.
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Brandon Lynn Pourner
N. Grandview
James Kurt Edwards
Dixie No. 2
Oil firm dupes on Florida Gulf drilling rights suit
Coastal Petroleum Co. seeks compensation after acknowledging the state will likely bar drilling in a 400000 acre Gulf of Mexico block from Apalachicola to near Tampa Bay. The Houston based company seeks fair market value of its 60 year lease, having paid $2.47 million since 1941, amid a 30 year legal battle over denied permits.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Texas
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Coastal Petroleum Co
Apalachicola
Coastal
1St District Court of Appeal
State Department of Environmental Protection
Perry plan funds two new Texas prisons with bonds
Governor Perry unveils a 110.5 billion two year budget proposing 95.1 million in state bonds to build four prisons 400 bed geriatric and 540 bed facilities plus 8.5 million for debt service. The plan follows a guard shortage blamed for seven inmate escapes and seeks pay raises and training funding for correctional staff.
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Rick Perry
Willie King
Houston
King
Scott
TDCJ
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Perry
Texas budget lays out education and criminal justice funding
The proposal allocates 41 million for math programs, 306.3 million for TEXAS Grant, 20 million for a community college TEXAS Grant, 15 million for Teach for Texas, 12.8 million in private bonds for transit, 1.3 billion in federal bonds for highways, 37.6 million to expand telemedicine in rural areas, 316.1 million for a 3.3 percent nursing home rate increase, and 95.1 million for four new prisons plus 54.5 million to repair existing facilities. Sen John Whitmire questions prison expansion while Perry cites readiness for crime and population changes.
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Teach For Texas
Whitmire
Perry
John Opperman
TDCJ
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