Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Title | Texas Department of Criminal Justice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Correctional personnel |
ISBN | 1563119641 |
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Title | Texas Department of Criminal Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Texas. Department of Criminal Justice |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Correctional institutions |
ISBN |
Behind the Walls
Title | Behind the Walls PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Antonio Renaud |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1574411527 |
Written by a Texas inmate trained as a reporter, this book gives practical advice on how inmates live, eat, play, work, and die in the Texas prison system. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice--what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. "While the book is meant to be a primer for those with loved ones in prison, it should be required reading for any attorney involved in criminal law."--Texas Lawyer de Novo Magazine
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Health Services review
Title | Texas Department of Criminal Justice Health Services review PDF eBook |
Author | Texas. Office of the State Auditor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Management Response
Title | The Management Response PDF eBook |
Author | Texas. Department of Criminal Justice |
Publisher | |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN |
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Review of the Automation Budget and Plans
Title | Texas Department of Criminal Justice Review of the Automation Budget and Plans PDF eBook |
Author | Texas. Department of Information Resources |
Publisher | |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Last Chance in Texas
Title | Last Chance in Texas PDF eBook |
Author | John Hubner |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008-04-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1588361632 |
A powerful, bracing and deeply spiritual look at intensely, troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates. While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that ran the most aggressive–and one of the most successful–treatment programs for violent young offenders in America. How was it possible, he wondered, that a state like Texas, famed for its hardcore attitude toward crime and punishment, could be leading the way in the rehabilitation of violent and troubled youth? Now Hubner shares the surprising answers he found over months of unprecedented access to the Giddings State School, home to “the worst of the worst”: four hundred teenage lawbreakers convicted of crimes ranging from aggravated assault to murder. Hubner follows two of these youths–a boy and a girl–through harrowing group therapy sessions in which they, along with their fellow inmates, recount their crimes and the abuse they suffered as children. The key moment comes when the young offenders reenact these soul-shattering moments with other group members in cathartic outpourings of suffering and anger that lead, incredibly, to genuine remorse and the beginnings of true empathy . . . the first steps on the long road to redemption. Cutting through the political platitudes surrounding the controversial issue of juvenile justice, Hubner lays bare the complex ties between abuse and violence. By turns wrenching and uplifting, Last Chance in Texas tells a profoundly moving story about the children who grow up to inflict on others the violence that they themselves have suffered. It is a story of horror and heartbreak, yet ultimately full of hope.