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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_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_000393
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Texas Prison System Meddling Brings Woes", May 23, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping from the Baytown Sun headlined, "Texas Prison System Meddling Brings Woes," May 23, 1982. Published in the Baytown Sun. Article states that U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice has "all but taken over supervision of Texas prisons" and has "circumvented lawful functions of a state district court in Harris County."
Page Count: 2
Subject Name: Justice, William Wayne, 1920-2009, Estelle, Ward James, Jr., Poe, Ted, Heard, Jack, Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding, Judicial power
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle, Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_005608
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Clements feels U.S. will drop prison suit," September 18, 1981
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined "Clements feels U.S. will drop prison suit," September 18, 1981, by Bruce Hight, published in the Austin American Statesman. Other clippings included on the page are, "Texas death row inmates challenge lethal drug" by Mark Thompson, published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on September 17, 1981; "Permanent School Fund reaches $3 million level" by Ken Ortolon, published in the San Antonio Light on September 18, 1981; and "Texas vs. NCAA goes to court" published in the San Antonio Light on September 18, 1981.
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, National Collegiate Athletic Association‏, University of Texas system, White, Mark, 1940-
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Prisons administration, Prisons, College sports, Capital punishment
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle, Mark White

Identifier: e_cle_004978
Title: Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements regarding acquisition of federal properties for use as correctional facilities or sites, August 28, 1981
Description: Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements regarding acquisition of federal properties for use as correctional facilities or sites. David Dean advises the governor of a letter he received about a clearinghouse to help state and local officials to "acquire federal properties for use as correctional facilities or sites." The attached Dallas Morning News article discusses the barracks-style housing the Texas Department of Corrections will have in October 1982.
Page Count: 4
Creator: Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons, Prisons--Overcrowding
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle