Priority Issues: Other
Reforming Indigent Defense: How Free Market Principles Can Help to Fix a Broken System published by The Cato Institute
Veterans’ Courts by the Texas Public Policy Foundation
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New Report on Prosecutorial Regulation of Corporations
Posted in Other, Priority Issues, ROC Blog: May 16, 2012 by Jeanette Moll
Low level criminal cases against individual defendants can sometimes be dismissed in lieu of a fine, or due to community service performed prior to the trial date, usually as recognition that the individual defendant’s debt to society has been paid and a trial is unnecessary.
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Flogging: Jeff Jacoby’s Modest Proposal
Posted in Other, Priority Issues, ROC Blog: July 25, 2011 by Henry Joel Simmons
Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe wrote a column fifteen years ago that called for the revival of corporal punishment for criminals. He advocated such measures because he believed they would save dollars and potentially be more humane than long prison sentences. Now, as skyrocketing rates of incarceration have become…
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Lubbock Blazes New Trail in Indigent Defense
Posted in Other, Priority Issues, ROC Blog, State Initiatives, Texas: June 30, 2011 by Henry Joel Simmons
An attorney is a constitutional right, but court-appointed defense attorneys have a tarnished history. Thanks to a sizeable grant from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense, Lubbock County is moving forward with a restructuring of its public defender program, The Texas Lawyer reports.
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Texas Lawmakers Look to Make Changes to Sex Offender Registry
Posted in Other, ROC Blog, Texas: May 25, 2011 by Joseph A. Adams
Texas is one of only a few states that includes in its public sex offender registration database the contact information of a sex offender’s employer. (A majority of the states exclude this information from their databases.) This has harmed some employers who…
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