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30 Mar 2011, 1:41 pm
Attorneys for Foster and Leal asked the Department of Justice and DPS to investigate TDCJ’s potential violations and “take appropriate steps if TDCJ has violated federal (or state) law. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:14 am
Wrote Johnson:Joe Latta, executive director of the International Association for Property and Evidence, says problems with missing and mishandled evidence plague the industry. [read post]
27 Mar 2011, 8:53 am
The question is, are budget writers listening to local judges and probation chiefs or bureaucrats at TDCJ? [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 9:54 am
" The timing — less than three weeks from the next scheduled execution — and the TDCJ's decision-making process drew quick criticism. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 8:18 am
According to TDCJ, the next execution in Texas is scheduled for April 5. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 8:16 am
However, TDCJ did not view this as an option and it was not in the proposed budget cuts listed by [TDCJ Executive Director Brad] Livingston. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:14 am
These schemes never seem to wrok out the way their proponents hope, and taxpayers inevitably are left holding the bag.Exacerbating matters, TDCJ last year canceled contracts with counties for 1,900 beds and doesn't plan rent beds from counties under the new budget, and the filed versions of Texas House and Senate budgets have suggested reducing the number of leased private prison beds by 3,519 and 2,119 beds respectively, further reducing the prospects for short-term demand. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 4:48 am
"When they're asking correctional officers to take a pay cut, and cutting programs and other areas, it's time for the upper management to give it up," Brian Olsen, executive director of a correctional employees union, said of the subsidized housing. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:05 am
Regular readers know TDCJ recently released its finally approved cuts to be implemented the current fiscal year (i.e., immediately, in the current budget cycle; see this pdf summary). [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am
And while inmates can appeal a ruling by requesting a review from a TDCJ committee, Medlock said 87 percent of appeals are denied. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 5:26 am
To request authorization to increase a rate, the Executive Director of the Department of Criminal Justice shall submit a written request to the Health and Human Services Commission and the Legislative Budget Board. [read post]
'Six Impossible Things': Do you believe in a conservative, rational, and smaller corrections budget?
28 Jan 2011, 6:26 am
As a local probation director bluntly told the Amarillo Globe-News, "If I lose things, it's going to mean more people going to prison. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:33 am
Our understanding is that a similar limitation will be considered for TDCJ correctional officers. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 5:29 am
Local judges, contact your probation director and ask them to distribute this information. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 5:48 am
To do that, however, would require changes in policy to reduce incarceration levels in addition to lowering TDCJ's budget. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am
All TDCJ operations and programs were reduced and the bill, as filed, would eliminate over 2,000 positions within TDCJ alone. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm
For reasons frequently discussed on this blog, it's unwise and unworkable to make such deep cuts in probation without the prison population expanding significantly in the near term.No more TDCJ pay hikes Central administration at TDCJ will take an 11% cut, but the executive director and the chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles will get to keep raises they received in 2010 (2.6% and 10%, respectively). [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 6:14 am
Inmates are more likely to successfully re-enter society if they maintain relationships with friends and families, said David Fathi, director of the National Prison Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am
Might universities cease providing health care in the Texas prison system, reverting to TDCJ-employed doctors at the agency's 85 in-prison health clinics? [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 9:24 am
According to TDCJ, two more executions are scheduled for this year, including one next week. [read post]
