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Identifier: e_cle_000491
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Clements opens special session to prisons," Henderson Daily News, May 26, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Clements opens special session to prisons," by Kathy Baker, Henderson Daily News, May 26, 1982. Clements calls a special session in order to address prison overcrowding and appropriate an emergency fund for the Texas Department of Corrections to add 4,000 more beds.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Baker, Kathy
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Hobby, Bill, 1932-, Clayton, Bill W., Texas. Department of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle

Identifier: e_cle_000474
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined: "Clements orders prisons to open gates by Monday," May, 14, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined: "Clements orders prisons to open gates by Monday," El Paso Times, May, 14, 1982. After Texas prisons closed due to overcrowding, Clements criticized the Texas Board of Corrections and ordered them to continue absorbing prisoners.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Dusek, Ron
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Estelle, Ward James, Jr., Texas Prison System, Texas. Board of Corrections
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Ruiz v Estelle

Identifier: e_cle_000505
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined:"Prison reform keeps surfacing", March 29, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined: "Prison reform keeps surfacing," Austin American-Statesman, March 29, 1982. Prison overcrowding and funding is a major issue in the 1982 election year.
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: White, Mark, 1940-, Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Texas Prison System
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Election
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Mark White, Ruiz v Estelle

Identifier: e_cle_000494
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined "Clements compares White to Hitler", Tyler Courier-Times Telegraph, May 11, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined: "Clements compares White to Hitler", Tyler Courier-Times Telegraph, May 11, 1982. White criticizes Clements about his 1979 veto of $30 million appropriation for construction, blaming that veto on a prison overcrowding cruising and the Texas Department of Corrections freezing prisoner intake.
Page Count: 1
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, White, Mark, 1940-, Estelle, Ward James, Jr., Texas Prison System
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Mark White, 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_000446
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Texas prison system trying to keep inmates, courts happy," June 27, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Texas prison system trying to keep inmates, courts happy," Waco Tribune-Herald, June 27, 1982. Governor Clements claims a victory when a remedy for prison overcrowding was struck down by a lower court, even though the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rules that Texas prison conditions constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
Page Count: 1
Creator: Rawls, Wendel, Jr.
Subject Name: Justice, William Wayne, 1920-2009, Clements, William P., 1917-2011
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform, Ruiz v Estelle