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The BBP was created by the Texas State Legislature in 1929, with three members appointed by the governor and one designated as supervisor of paroles.. In 1935, the Texas Constitution [3] was amended to create the BPP as a member of the executive branch with constitutional authority, and making the governor's clemency authority subject to board recommendation.
The first jail in Travis County was authorized in 1847 and constructed on what is now known as the Old Courthouse block of downtown Austin. When this facility was destroyed by a fire in 1855, a new jail was built on the site the following year. This iteration of the jail and county courthouse lasted until 1906. [3]
Located in downtown Austin, Texas (the county seat), the courthouse holds civil and criminal trial courts and other functions of county government. The courthouse was built between 1930 and 1931 in the then-contemporary PWA Moderne style, and it was later expanded in 1958 and 1962.
The smallest theatre in Texas Performing Arts, located inside the Winship Drama Building, this intimate space seats 244. [7] Since it opened in 1964, it is utilized for student productions of the Department of Theatre & Dance. In April 2001 it was formally dedicated as the “Oscar G. Brockett Theatre,” after Dr. Oscar G. Brockett. Dr.
The historic seacoast of Texas. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77741-5. Selcer, Richard F. (2004). Legendary Watering Holes: The Saloons That Made Texas Famous. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-336-9. Sitton, Thad (2006). The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line. University of Oklahoma. ISBN 9780806134710.
Austin formerly operated its City Hall at 124 West 8th Street. [3] In the 1980s, the City of Austin proposed a 60-acre urban renewal project for Austin's Warehouse District, [4] which would have included a new city hall complex designed by urban planner Denise Scott Brown, along with a new location for the Laguna Gloria art museum, designed by architect Robert Venturi. [5]
The West Virginia Division of Corrections is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the state Department of Homeland Security that operates the state's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. [1]
The area was originally part of a 365-acre (148 ha) tract of land belonging to Texas Governor Elisha Pease, and in 1871 was sold to Charles Clark, a freedman who would start the community that now bears his name. Clark built a house on what is now West Tenth Street and subdivided the remainder of the land to other freedmen.