THE BRAZOSPORT NEWS (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Above you will see a photo of reporters, photographers and one editor gathered in the newsroom of the late, lamented Houston Post newspaper to commemorate John Whitmire Day. John is the fellow with the hangdog expression seated on the stool, holding his ever-present cup of machine coffee. John, who died of an aortic aneurysm around '96, was known for wearing essentially...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
After spending the last year trying to get the Texas prison system to reduce contraband flows, I'll bet state Sen. John Whitmire's head nearly exploded when he learned of yesterday's escape using a gun smuggled to an inmate. In an article by Peggy O'Hare in the Houston Chronicle , he openly called for Governor Perry to replace the board and top administrators at the Texas Department of...
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Whoops. The man who oversees Texas’ criminal justice system called Wednesday for a shake-up as authorities searched for a prisoner in a wheelchair who escaped on foot Monday from two armed guards as he was being transferred between prisons. ‘I just think enough’s enough,’ said state Sen. John Whitmire, a Democrat from Houston who is chairman of [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... TEXAS FORENSIC SCIENCE COMMISSION LACKS CREDIBILITY « CRIMINAL ... By johntfloyd "John Whitmire, the chairman of the state's legislative criminal justice committee, who instructed the FSC chairman to proceed with the investigation because it was within the purview of the law . .... He pointed out that there are 742 people under arson convictions in the state's prison system...
