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- Identifier
- e_cle_009870
- Title
- Prison Financing and Construction Plan, State of Texas, July 1987
- Description
- Prison Financing and Construction Plan, State of Texas, July 1987. Bound plan of prison financing and construction for the State of Texas Department of Corrections (TDC). The plan begins with a letter from William P. Clements, Jr. to the Texas Legislature, in which the Governor emphasizes the importance of new prison construction and financing after the ruling on the Ruiz v Estelle case.
- Page Count
- 70
- Contributor
- Clements, William P., 1917-2011
- Subject Name
- Texas. Department of Criminal Justice, Justice, William Wayne, 1920-2009
- Subject Topic
- Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding, Privatization
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle
- Identifier
- e_cle_014063
- Title
- Newspaper clipping headlined "How Texas can begin to win war on crime", July 1, 1988
- Description
- Newspaper clipping headlined "How Texas can begin to win war on crime", July 1, 1988. By Charles T. Terrell, chairman of the Texas Board of Corrections, published in Dallas Times Herald. Regarding high crime rate, prisons, mental health care, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
- Page Count
- 1
- Creator
- Terrell, Charles T.
- Subject Name
- Texas Criminal Justice Task Force
- Subject Topic
- Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding, Mental health, Drug abuse
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle
- Identifier
- e_cle_000072
- Title
- Letter from Robert D. Gunn to William P. Clements, Jr., July 18, 1986
- Description
- Letter from Robert D. Gunn to William P. Clements, Jr., July 18, 1986. Regarding the consequences of the Ruiz v Estelle case. Gunn, retired Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Texas Department of Corrections, summarizes his involvement in prison reform in Texas and gives suggestions for improvement of the prison system, criminal justice, and the police. The letter is annotated by Clements.
- Page Count
- 4
- Creator
- Gunn, Robert
- Contributor
- Clements, William P., 1917-2011
- Subject Name
- Texas. Department of Corrections
- Subject Topic
- Prisons, Prisons administration, Crime prevention, Prisons--Overcrowding, Criminal Justice, Administration of, Crime, Privatization, Police
- Time Period
- "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Ruiz v Estelle, Criminal Justice Reform
- Identifier
- e_cle_004993
- Title
- Newspaper clipping headlined: "Clements in 1980: going to the mat", undated.
- Description
- Newspaper clipping headlined: "Clements in 1980: going to the mat", undated. The article covers Governor Clements first year in office, his use of polls, and the expansion of the Texas prison system.
- Page Count
- 2
- Creator
- Byers, William Bowling, 1920-
- Subject Topic
- Wiretapping, Prisons--Overcrowding
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle
- Identifier
- e_cle_014454
- Title
- Report titled "Emergency Fact Finding by Criminal Justice Policy Council", January 26, 1988
- Description
- Report titled "Emergency Fact Finding by Criminal Justice Policy Council", January 26, 1988. Topics include methods to make prisons more safe and optimizing Texas Prisons.
- Page Count
- 28
- Subject Name
- Texas. Department of Corrections
- Subject Topic
- Criminals--Rehabilitation, Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding
- Themebook Term(s)
- Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle
- Identifier
- e_cle_009810
- Title
- Memo from Scott Carruth to the Executive Working Group, November 2, 1989 thru February 22, 1990
- Description
- Memo from Scott Carruth to the Executive Working Group, November 2, 1989 thru February 22, 1990 regarding prison capacity in regards to overcrowding. Includes timelines, graphs, percentages of felons per citizen ratio, and total numbers of PIA's released from December 1988 to October 1989.
- Page Count
- 50
- Creator
- Carruth, Scott
- Contributor
- Criminal Justice Working Group
- Subject Topic
- Prisons--Overcrowding, Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation, Criminal Justice, Administration of, Criminal statistics
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle
- Identifier
- e_cle_014065
- Title
- Letter to William P. Clements from Attorney General Jim Mattox, May 2, 1988
- Description
- Letter to William P. Clements from Attorney General Jim Mattox, May 2, 1988. This letter is a follow up to a previous letter regarding the refusal of the Public Finance Authority to approve financing for three units and the Ruiz case.
- Page Count
- 2
- Creator
- Mattox, Jim
- Contributor
- Clements, William P., 1917-2011
- Subject Topic
- Prisons--Overcrowding
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Ruiz v Estelle, Criminal Justice Reform
- Identifier
- e_cle_005155
- Title
- Letter from Mark White to William P. Clements, Jr., June 26, 1981
- Description
- Letter from Mark White to William P. Clements, Jr., June 26, 1981. Letter from Mark White, Attorney General of Texas, to Governor William P. Clements, Jr. regarding the Ruiz v. Estelle prison suite and federal prison standards.
- Page Count
- 5
- Creator
- White, Mark, 1940-
- Contributor
- Clements, William P., 1917-2011
- Subject Name
- Reagan, Ronald, Smith, William French, 1917-, Texas. Department of Corrections
- Subject Topic
- Prisons, Federal-state controversies, Prisons--Overcrowding, Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation, Criminal Justice, Administration of
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Mark White, Ruiz v Estelle, Ronald Reagan, Criminal Justice Reform
- Identifier
- e_cle_009834
- Title
- Essay titled "The Clements Criminal Justice Reforms," undated
- Description
- Essay titled "The Clements Criminal Justice Reforms," undated, written on the evolution of Bill Clements' reaction to the Ruiz v Estelle ruling starting in 1987. Includes charts and graphs.
- Page Count
- 6
- Subject Name
- Justice, William Wayne, 1920-2009
- Subject Genre
- Schedules (time plans)
- Subject Topic
- Criminal Justice, Administration of, Prisons--Overcrowding
- Time Period
- "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
- Themebook Term(s)
- Ruiz v Estelle, Criminal Justice Reform