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16 Feb, 2008 10:50 pm
... a hearing scheduled on Friday to call Mr. N on the carpet for his decision to fire Dimitria Pope,
the senator's long-time close friend. Reported Doug Swanson: ... toward reform was excellent. Behind the scenes, however, a different conversation was occurring. "Ms. Pope's gone, but the problems still exist," Mr. Whitmire said last ... TYC than anyone knows." But inexplicably, the Senator is not angry at Ms.
Pope for concealing these problems in her testimony before his committee on numerous occasions, ...
8 Feb, 2008 12:40 am
After Texas Youth Commission conservator Richard Nedelkoff deflected questions over the fate of acting executive director Dimitria
Pope on Wednesday (I had to leave before this point in the hearing), Pope herself told the House
Appropriations ... a collective sigh of relief by several thousand TYC employees and their families around the state. It appears, though, that Ms. Pope will not go gently into that good night, telling the committee according to the Dallas News, "I am the stabilizing factor of ...
11 Sep, 2007 4:05 am
... " on the Texas Youth Commission website which previously escaped my notice. The theme of several new directives from Executive Commissioner Dimitria Pope was handing off key management decisions to small groups of hand-picked insiders. In some instances,
given poor ... , or extension of stay for all non-sentenced offender youth who have completed the assigned minimum length of stay." I'd heard about this panel but hadn't seen the
directive. I guess these are the folks who must decide the fate of 19- ...
8 Jul, 2007 12:44 pm
... , tell us what you think. And good luck, folks. RELATED UPDATE: Apparently Pope, Ed Owens and other TYC muckety mucks were in the Valley
last week ... TYC's Conservator, Ed Owens, TYC's Acting Executive Director, Dimitria D. Pope,
TYC's Interim Assistant Deputy Executive Director for Juvenile Corrections, Stan ... now that this organization is moving in the right direction," said Peña. That's further than
I'd go describing an agency with 48% annual staff turnover, a stable of inappropriately designed, ...
1 Oct, 2007 11:32 pm
... facility holds 197 young offenders, said TYC spokesman Jim Hurley. "TYC's number one priority is the safety and well being of those youths under our care," Dimitria D. Pope, the agency's acting executive director, said in a statement. "The unsafe conditions I
witnessed at ... , which discovered after an audit that Geo did not provide statutorily required programming they'd agreed to by contract. This appears to be a recurring theme at
Geo, to judge by these reports: They're warehousing ...
5 Feb, 2008 1:39 am
... was brought by USDOJ's civil rights division, which for years under former AG Alberto Gonzales simply never pursued cases in Texas, so I'd attribute this case going forward,
in part, to his departure. The named defendants are the state, Governor Rick Perry, Richard Nedelkoff, Dimitria D. Pope and Melody Vidaurri, who is superintendent at Evins, "and their successors, contractors and agents." The litigation accuses TYC of failing to protect ...
16 Dec, 2007 2:28 am
... and the spirit of the season that made me hone in on TYC acting executive director Dimitria Pope's newest declaration about the youth under her care. Today in the Dallas ... Governor Perry gets back from Iowa he'll have had time to think things over
and reconsider. Naturally, Ms. Pope disagrees, reports the News ... Krisberg said. "Texas is worse: more corruption, more abuse." The only
disagreement I'd have with the Dallas News' assessment is the use of the future conditional tense, "may be": Advocates ...
10 Feb, 2008 4:42 am
... said." And not just regarding Richard Nedelkoff. I've deleted comments about Dimitria Pope
several times that went WAY over the top, and given the kind ... he's "seriously concerned" about the decision to (possibly) increase the salary of her successor. I'd wager,
though, that if Chairman Whitmire took the job managing TYC at $160 ... another Whitmire broadside: Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, said
Nedelkoff's resignation will not resolve the concerns. "By leaving, he ...
6 Feb, 2008 4:22 am
... inmates in Texas youth prisons from 2006 levels, and a 36% reduction in the number of JCOs - I'd never understood the new budget anticipated cuts that drastic. The youth who
would have been in ... Turner tried to pin down Nedelkoff on whether Dimitria Pope would remain
executive director, but Nedelkoff said he'd prefer to discuss the matter privately, deflecting the question fairly admirably. Turner made it clear, though, that he'd like
see an announcement very soon, and he "doesn't want to spend ...
23 Nov, 2007 1:04 am
... TYC, and yesterday's visit confirmed that understaffing continues to be a problem. I wished later I'd counted heads in each one, but not a single one of the pods we visited
... would do a much better job of crafting a workable use of force policy than Dimitria Pope and
"Bronco" Billy Humphrey have done. They knew exactly what ... his own feces on the wall and licking it off. Acting TYC executive director Dimitria Pope told a legislative committee last month she was unaware of a problem with delays in ...
5 Feb, 2008 10:36 pm
... hearing's focus. It could well be in reaction to news that acting Executive Director Dimitria Pope spent unauthorized funds to refurbish her office, but there are quite ... Maybe some of them will get asked. Weird Media Hit on New Conservator
Dimitria Pope's chief legislative champion took a shot across the new conservator ... deal, or
brought in a bunch of unqualified cronies from the adult prison system to replace managers who'd spent years at the agency? Nedelkoff has already said his company will not ...
10 Dec, 2007 12:34 am
... more importantly competent leadership. At the moment, neither appear to be forthcoming. As for replacing Acting Executive Director Dimitria
Pope, the 22% who thought she'd be removed next probably were engaging in wishful thinking. Supposedly candidates being asked to become
TYC's next "conservator" have been told that Ms. Pope is a mandatory part of the package, a requirement that convinced a couple of good
possible choices to turn the Governor down for the job. ...
5 Oct, 2007 5:28 am
... morning held by Texas Youth Commission Executive Director Dimitria Pope at the TYC headquarters
in Austin. Ms. Pope's main purpose for calling the event was to release an "audit ... Pssst ... I think she may mean us, readers). She said
she'd fired everyone associated with the Coke County fiasco, and she has "zero ... hold hearings to assess the Geo Group's contracts with the state of Texas, developments
Pope discussed in some detail. But the biggest news of the press conference, to me, was an announcement ...
4 Dec, 2007 6:48 am
... must meet expectations, apparently, but me, as well! I couldn't make it to the hearing; I'd already said my piece when I submitted written comments, and was waiting till I
... , but they could easily approve the same one Acting Executive Director Dimitria Pope first
proposed on August 2. At this point, you never know. SEE ALSO: ... to guard TYC facilities because they're shortstaffed Acting Executive Director Dimitria Pope is relieved of her position A new conservator is appointed TYC announces more ...
26 Sep, 2007 12:37 am
... 'd hate to be the parent of one of the 19-20 year olds currently in legal limbo incarcerated in TYC. Every few days their status seems to change. According ... Ward ("Youth
commission changes course on older offenders," 9/25), On Tuesday, Dimitria Pope, the agency's acting
executive director, announced that 79 of 159 older ... authority to keep these offenders any longer. Reported Ward, "By late August, Pope was
telling a legislative committee that the agency had a plan to get all of the older offenders ...
13 Oct, 2007 3:24 am
... on the dozens of privately run lockups that dot the state. As expected, acting Texas Youth Commission Executive Director Dimitria
Pope deflected blame for her administration's failure to identify problems at the Coke County private youth prison, though the ... much more to
ensure these private facilities are properly monitored by the state - all of them," committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, said after the hearing. "The same issues that we
found at the TYC center are there in the others." ...
15 Oct, 2007 11:18 pm
... agency leadership but wants out," Oct. 16), Owens said he'd like to be replaced as conservator by the end of the week, though he recommended ending conservatorship ... data
it's obvious that's not true. Noting that TYC Executive Director Dimitria Pope told legislators in
August that abuse of kids had been "98%" eliminated, ... 's going on. In other words, new top-heavy systems created by Owens' and Pope's
"reform" of the agency actually hindered processing complaints instead of improving it, at least ...
29 Aug, 2007 3:59 am
... go through it but agency spokesman Jim Hurley just mentioned to me that they'd finally finished it in time for this morning's hearing. Give it a read and let us ... you think
of their answers. Meanwhile, Executive Director Dimitria Pope also mentioned two documents I've not
seen that I'd like to be seen placed online: Project Reform ... TYC volunteers in June to better facilitate more thorough criminal background checks. Pope said that TYC has implemented new policies and processes to improve complaint ...
24 Sep, 2007 3:44 am
... be overturned. Regular readers know TYC has been sued over Executive Director Dimitria Pope's
August 2 directive moving OC spray or "pepper spray" up ... escape and fleeing apprehension when manual restraint would be impracticable. Here's the problem: Ms. Pope's August 2 directive instructed "trained" staff "to use OC spray prior to ... then it violates the GAP policy. That's a Catch-22 not resolved in the
current rules. I'd love to know more about who's now carrying OC spray at the units on the ground.
17 Oct, 2007 3:20 am
... I should mention: Texas Youth Commission Ombudsman Will Harrell testified to the House Corrections Committee that, although he'd seen problems at every facility, that the
"closest thing to Coke County is Victory Field." He also said the ... of the morning: Lots of TYC kids in non-mental health specific facilities have unmet mental health needs. Shocking,
huh? UPDATE: Just back in time to hear Dimitria Pope dispute Harrell's assessment of Victory Field.
Although Harrell had produced a damning report ...
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