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Identifier: e_cle_004722
Title: Letter from William P. Clements to Ms. Connie Jackson, Chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, January 17, 1980
Description: Letter from William P. Clements to Ms. Connie Jackson, Chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, January 17, 1980. Regarding the processes of determining eligibility for parole.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Contributor: Jackson, Connie
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

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_005434
Title: Comparison of Approvals/Denials of Paroles From Two Independent Studies By the Governor's Division of Criminal Justice and the Board of Pardons and Paroles Data Processing Division
Description: Comparison of Approvals/Denials of Paroles From Two Independent Studies By the Governor's Division of Criminal Justice and the Board of Pardons and Paroles Data Processing Division
Page Count: 11
Subject Topic: Criminal Justice, Administration of, Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_006123
Title: Press release regarding new conditional parole program, May 7, 1981
Description: Press release regarding new conditional parole program. This parole program will release inmates to halfway houses to help solve the overcrowding issue addressed in Ruiz v. Estelle.
Page Count: 4
Subject Topic: Parole, Halfway Houses
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle

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_005401
Title: Draft letter to Mark White regarding Constitutionality of S.B. #122 relating to instruction of jurors on parole and good conduct time laws, undated
Description: Draft letter to Mark White regarding Constitutionality of S.B. #122 relating to instruction of jurors on parole and good conduct time laws, undated. Does not have creator. Revision three of this letter references the pending request for an opinion on the constitutionality of S.B. #122 from the Attorney General for State v. Farris.
Page Count: 10
Contributor: White, Mark, 1940-
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform, Mark White

Identifier: e_cle_004584
Title: Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements regarding recent crime survey, October 23, 1979
Description: Memo from David Dean, dated October 23, 1979, to William P. Clements regarding recent crime survey conducted by the Texas Criminal Justice Center in Huntsville, Texas. Clements adds his handwritten comments and sends back to Dean.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: Francis, Jim
Subject Topic: Prisons, Parole, Capital punishment, Wiretapping
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_005883
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined "Board of Paroles finds Clements a tough warden", September 23, 1979
Description: Newspaper clipping from the Austin American-Statemen, "Board of Paroles finds Clements a tough warden," September 23, 1979, by Jim Baker. Article discusses paroles and pardons and states, "In the past six months, Clements as vetoed 33 percent of the parole recommendations sent to him by the Board of Pardons and Paroles."
Page Count: 1
Creator: Baker, Jim
Subject Topic: Parole, Pardon
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_005433
Title: Analysis of Parole Approvals and Denials in the First 20 Months of the Clements' Administration March 30, 1981
Description: Analysis of Parole Approvals and Denials in the First 20 Months of the Clements' Administration March 30, 1981
Page Count: 13
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_005435
Title: Memo from Blake Hazlett to the Executive Management Board, April 9, 1981
Description: Memo from Blake Hazlett to the Executive Mannagmet Board, April 9, 1981, regarding the analysis of probability of parole actions
Page Count: 5
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
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_005437
Title: Letter to Senator Peyton McKnight from Board of Pardons and Paroles, March 30, 1981
Description: Letter to Senator Peyton McKnight from Board of Pardons and Paroles, March 30, 1981, regarding appointments and confirmation hearings for the state Board of Pardons and Paroles
Page Count: 3
Creator: McKnight, Peyton
Contributor: Board of Pardons and Paroles and Board
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_002435
Title: Memo from David Klarer to Paul Wrotenbery, April 18, 1979
Description: Memo from David Klarer to Paul Wrotenbery, April 18, 1979, regarding Parole System
Page Count: 3
Creator: Klarer, David
Contributor: Wrotenbery, Paul T.
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_004960
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined "Governor's Clemency Office Behind in dealing with parole, pardon cases", April 21, 1979
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined "Governor's Clemency Office Behind in dealing with parole, pardon cases", April 21, 1979. Backlog in cases possibly caused by a halt in work due to allegations of parole selling.
Page Count: 3
Subject Topic: Parole, Misconduct in office
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_000055
Title: Speech titled "Crime Speech," September 26, 1986
Description: Speech titled "Crime Speech," September 26, 1986. Campaign speech focusing on criminal justice reform and Mark White's approach to criminal justice. The speech has been annotated and a note on the first pages reads, "Thursday speech in San Antonio."
Page Count: 4
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Name: White, Mark, 1940-
Subject Topic: Crime prevention, Criminal Justice, Administration of, Crime, Parole, Drug traffic, Wiretapping, Sex crimes, Early release programs
Time Period: "White Interregnum, 1983-1986"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform, Mark White

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_014517
Title: Group of documents regarding Texas Department of Corrections Capacity Expansion, July 1989
Description: Group of documents regarding Texas Department of Corrections Capacity Expansion, July 1989. Documents include Texas Department of Corrections update on inmate bed capacity, July 17, 1989; two charts showing TDC projected increase in beds in 1989-199; and a memorandum from Special Master J. Michael Keating proposing a variety of methods for relieving prison overcrowding in Harris County, July 28, 1989.
Page Count: 6
Creator: Keating, J. Michael, Texas. Department of Corrections
Contributor: Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation, Prison furloughs, Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle, Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_004133
Title: Memorandum from Paul T. Wrotenbery to Governor William P. Clements, Jr., January 15, 1982
Description: Memorandum from Paul T. Wrotenbery to Governor William P. Clements, Jr., January 15, 1982. The memo regards a review of parole procedures. Attached is a report titled "The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles: A Procedural Review," by the Governor's Special Audit Group.
Page Count: 27
Creator: Wrotenbery, Paul T.
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Topic: Parole
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

Identifier: e_cle_009825
Title: Letter from Malcolm MacDonald to William P. Clements regarding employment services for parolees, July 17, 1989
Description: Letter from Malcolm MacDonald to William P. Clements regarding employment services for parolees. MacDonald asks for Governor Clements support to extend Project RIO, a successful parolee training program, to the probation population.
Page Count: 2
Contributor: Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Topic: Parole, Occupational training
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 2, 1987-1991"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform

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