Texas Puts Records Online - The records, like criminal records in many
states, are already publicly available. But there's a big difference between
availability through the mail or by walking into the local government office,
and access via any Internet-connected PC.
Prison Talk Online - Discussion forum for friends and families of Texas
Department of Criminal Justice inmates.
Robert
L. Ward - Law firm practicing in Cleburne, Texas. Specializing in
criminal, family, insurance, personal injury - plaintiffs, products liability
and professional malpractice law.
Texas
Department of Criminal Justice - Current information that clearly defines
the agency's primary functions and operations and explains how those
responsibilities impact offenders and the general public.
Texas Attorney
General: Criminal Justice - Links to Texas criminal justice publications
and other resources. Reports include information on gang violence, and the
impact of crime on victims.
PublicData.Com - Provides public access to public information and public
databases. Includes State of Texas criminal records, registered voters,
registered sex offenders, and licensed drivers. This service does require
registration and payment of a fee.
Windham School
District - Provides educational services for incarcerated adults in the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
TDCJ's
Unofficial Place on the Internet - The unofficial web page for Officers of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. A Guestbook to voice your opinion, a
chat room to talk with other Officers around the state, stories and articles
submitted by you are printed on this page.
Don't Mess
with Texas - If you have a criminal record in the Lone Star State, anyone
with a little patience and some spare change can have a look at your file
online. Privacy advocates are not very happy about that. By Marc Savlov.
[Wired News]
Texas Inmates
Families Association - Provides information for family members and informs
state elected officials and the general public about the effects of the
criminal justice system upon the inmates' family members. Site includes a
forum, a list of chapters and meeting schedules, and membership information.
Corrections Association of Texas - Union of employees of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division. Includes a list of
services, contact information for board members, surveys, and salary
information. Affiliated with the International Union of Police Associations
(IUPA).
Stricter Rules
Cut Number of Assaults - From staff and wire reports tougher parole
measures for sex offenders have helped push down the number of sexual assaults
in Texas by 17 percent since 1993, the executive director of the Criminal
Justice Policy Council said.
Texas Department of
Criminal Justice: Death Row Information - Includes a list of death row
inmates, gender and racial statistics including executions per year, a list of
scheduled and completed executions, a list of inmates no longer on death row,
and final meal requests and the media witness list for each inmate.
Michael
J. Brown - Accepts criminal defense cases anywhere in Texas. Office in
Snyder, Texas.
Randall Barrera - Law firm practicing in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Specializing in business and commercial, criminal, family,insurance and
personal injury law.
Lubbock
Firm Sues DPS For Refusal to Release Database - A Lubbock firm that does
criminal background checks for schools and apartment communities has sued the
Texas Department of Public Safety for its entire criminal conviction database.
Texas
Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty - Inclusive organization composed
of human rights activists, death row prisoners and their families, crime
victims and their families, persons working within the criminal justice
system, persons opposed to capital punishment on religious and moral grounds,
and other concerned citizens. Includes membership form, facts and figures,
current news, and events.
Joseph R. Gallo - Practice areas include civil rights, constitutional law,
criminal law, DUI/DWI, education law and state, local and municipal law.
Located in Waxahachie, Texas.
Mathur Law Offices, PC - Law office based in Dallas, Texas handles
criminal and drunk driving defense, immigration, personal injury, medical
malpractice and nursing home negligence cases.
Search and Serve
Services - Civil and criminal service of process in Bexar, Atascosa,
Bandera, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina, and Wilson Counties in Texas.
Witness to an Execution
- Radio documentary examining the effects that executing inmates has on the
men and women of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Windham School District - Provides educational services for incarcerated
adults in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. District information,
employment listings, newsletters, calendar, and contact information.
Police
Research Center - Part of the George J. Beto Criminal Justice Center.
Developers of the Criminal Research, Information Management, and Evaluation
System program and produce Texas Law Enforcement Management and Administrative
Statistics Program (TELEMASP) Bulletins. Other initiatives include the Law
Enforcement Technology and Strategy Institute, the National Institute of
Justice's (NIJ) Law Enforcement Information Systems Demonstration Project, and
several technology and training projects produced in partnership with Eastern
Kentucky University.
Law Offices
of Hayes, Coffey & Berry - Attorneys located in Denton, Texas.
Specializing in areas of litigation, real estate, condemnation, family law,
wills and trust, and criminal law.
Killer Surrenders
- Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, the subject of an intensive manhunt in connection
with slayings in Illinois, Kentucky, and Texas, surrendered to the FBI Tuesday
in El Paso, according to NBC News. Resendez-Ramirez, a 38-year-old Mexican
drifter with a long criminal history, was wanted for a string of serial
killings that led the media to dub him the "Railroad Killer," since he is
believed to have been riding the rails and finding most of his victims near
rail lines. [Wired News]
