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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_000473
Title: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Legislature to consider prison issue", May 26, 1982
Description: Newspaper clipping headlined, "Legislature to consider prison issue", May 26, 1982. By Ron Dusek, published in the El Paso Times. Regarding Clements' announcement that he will open the special session of the Legislature to the issue of prison overcrowding.
Page Count: 2
Creator: Dusek, Ron
Subject Name: Clements, William P., 1917-2011, Hobby, Bill, 1932-, Clayton, Bill W., Texas. Department of Corrections, Moreno, Paul, Polk, Mary, Coleman, Ronald D. (Ronald D'Emory), 1941-
Subject Topic: Prisons--Overcrowding, Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation, Prisons, Property tax
Time Period: "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982"
Themebook Term(s): Criminal Justice Reform, Bill Hobby