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Identifier: e_cle_009866
Title: Memo from Scott Carruth to Rider Scott, September 11, 1989
Description: Memo from Scott Carruth to Rider Scott, September 11, 1989, regarding the TDCJ's construction schedule in relation to prison overcrowding. Includes charts and graphs relating to the subject matter.
Page Count: 13
Creator: Carruth, Scott
Contributor: Scott, Scott, Rider, Fitzpatrick, Knox
Subject Topic: Construction projects, Prisons--Overcrowding, Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_005552
Title: Letter from William P. Clements, Jr., to the members of the Texas Board of Corrections, October 4, 1982
Description: Letter from William P. Clements, Jr., to the members of the Texas Board of Corrections, October 4, 1982. Regarding a meeting to approve processes to avoid prison overcrowding.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Contributor: Texas. Board of Corrections
Subject Name: Texas. Board of Corrections, Texas. Department of Corrections, Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission for the Comprehensive Review of the Criminal Justice Corrections System
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_001290
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined "Clements Wants End to Early Release of Prisoners," undated
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined "Clements Wants End to Early Release of Prisoners," undated. Clements thinks early release programs are contributing to the crime problem and wants them ended.
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Parole, Criminal Justice, Administration of, Prisons--Overcrowding
Time Period: "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_006329
Title: Press release from the Office of Governor William P. Clements, Jr. regarding the Blue Ribbon Commission on Criminal Justice, August 3, 1982
Description: Press release from the Office of Governor William P. Clements, Jr. regarding the Blue Ribbon Commission on Criminal Justice, August 3, 1982. Press release announcing that the Blue Ribbon Commission on Criminal Justice will hold a public hearing in Austin on August 11, 1982, to receive testimony on critical issues confronting the criminal justice system.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Texas. Office of the Governor
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission for the Comprehensive Review of the Criminal Justice Corrections System, Lipshy, Bruce, McFarland, Bob
Subject Topic: Criminal Justice, Administration of, Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding, Parole, Early release programs
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_001274
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined "White, Clements in war of words over TDC policy," October 24, 1986
Description: Newspaper clipping from the Houston Chronicle headlined "White, Clements in war of words over TDC policy," October 24, 1986, by Jan Rich. White and Clements clash over the use of "good time" in release of prisoners. Some Texas Department of Corrections employees don't want prisons to be part of a political battle and think "good time" is being used alleviate overcrowding not for its original purpose.
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: Texas. Department of Corrections, Clements, William P., 1917-2011, White, Mark, 1940-
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Parole
Time Period: "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
Themebook Term(s): Mark White, Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_009824
Title: Letter from Judy Wilbanks to William P. Clements, February 9, 1988
Description: Letter from Judy Wilbanks of the organization We the People to Governor William P. Clements, regarding inmates paroled from the Texas Department of Corrections, February 9, 1988.
Page Count: 1
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Parole, Prisons--Overcrowding
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_000054
Title: Memo from Pablo Martinez to Board of Pardons and Paroles members, Executive Director, and Executive Staff regarding End of FY 1986 Prison Population Dynamics, September 3, 1986
Description: Memo from Pablo Martinez to Board of Pardons and Paroles members, Executive Director, and Executive Staff regarding End of Fiscal Year 1986 Prison Population Dynamics, September 3, 1986. Memo compares the total population of Texas prisons between 1985 and 1986 and the percentage of change. The total admissions increased 20.21% and total releases increased of 26.56%.
Page Count: 2
Creator: Martinez, Pablo
Subject Name: Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Prisons administration, Prisons, Parole
Time Period: "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform