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Ideas for good corrections bills

A staffer recently asked me for bill suggestions that might go through the House Corrections Committee, so I offered several ideas, none fully developed into bill language, but all relatively simple to draft. Upon reflection, I added a couple of more to the list and submit them here for readers' consideration. Use the comments to say what other Corrections (or other criminal justice) bills you'd like to see filed in the 81st Texas Legislature before the March 13 filing deadline:1. Recognition of possible innocence: Quite a few of Texas' DNA exonerees - including Timothy Cole who died in prison - were denied parole in part because they refused to accept responsibility for crimes that, it turns out, they did not, in fact, commit. I would add a new (d) between the current (c) and (d), renumbering accordingly, at Government Code 508...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).