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Data on Texas' inmates access to the courts

I thought these 2008 data from TDCJ about prisoners' access to the courts were interesting, supplying metrics for broadly comparing in-prison writ writing activity to the level of outside legal representation for prisoners. In 2008 at TDCJ, there were:608,053 offender visits to law library sessions247,819 items of legal research material were delivered17,035 notary signatures were provided1,456 offender/offender legal visits were conducted1,314 attorney/offender phone calls were conducted527 court teleconference inquiries via phone were conducted81 court teleconference inquiries via video conference were conducted4,083 attorney visits were conducted969 attorney representative visits were conducted54,310 court forms were issued4,377 court certificates of impoverishmentPresumably the State Counsel for Offenders accounts for some of those attorney visits...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).