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28 Sep 2010, 8:13 am
“To be quite honest, it’s a very rational decision” to choose incarceration over probation for many misdemeanor offenses, the director of the Bell/Lampassas County probation department told the Texas Tribune in a story titled "Many choosing jail time over probation," a subject we've discussed here on Grits for many years. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 7:30 am
These are policy decisions so they weren't suggested by TDCJ in its recent Legislative Appropriations Request. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 8:16 am
According to TDCJ, Texas' next scheduled execution in August 17. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 8:44 am
"Becky Price, deputy director of TDCJ's rehabilitation programs division, said the state's program is patterned after a similar effort at a Fort Worth federal prison. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 10:34 am
Leeper and TDCJ's medical director will be meeting to discuss the subject. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:09 am
Sylvester Turner's HB 2161, which requires Texas state agencies to facilitate getting drivers' licenses to former inmates upon release.Although Turner's legislation directed DPS to enter a memorandum of understanding with TDCJ and the Department of State Health Services to get departing inmates ID, DPS Director Steve McCraw testified at yesterday's House Corrections Committee hearing that he wasn't willing to commit to complying, claiming to do… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 7:04 am
My only question about this latest move by TDCJ: "What will you cut in the budget to pay for drug testing employees? [read post]
13 May 2010, 7:17 am
Ohio's modern annual record is seven, in 2004.According to TDCJ, eight additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including two more in May. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 5:35 am
“The voters really aren’t showing us the way on these kinds of things,” said Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:30 am
This is interesting; from a press release reprinted in the Huntsville Item:The G4 Faith Based Row, a program launched in the Wynne Unit in Huntsville, received the Governor’s 2010 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award in recognition of its dedication to ministering to offenders incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [last week].The award was presented by Texas Board of Criminal Justice Chairman Oliver Bell, and TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston… [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 6:03 am
"As I write this, Texas prisons release about as many inmates every year as they take in - more than 72,000 statewide - and the largest jurisdictions actually get back more people from TDCJ than they send. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 6:47 am
To the credit of Director Brad Livingston, he did emphatically point out the likely negative impact of the proposed cuts if actually made in the TDCJ budget. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:24 am
Brad Livingston, TDCJ's executive director, stated that just a year ago the agency had nearly 4,000 vacant Correctional Officer positions open. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:54 am
(There weren't nearly as many vocal, CSCD directors coming out to support reform in 2005 or 2007.) [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:56 am
The Texas House Appropriations Committee yesterday gave Department of Criminal Justice director Brad Livingston a pass on whether prison closures should be part of his agency's budget cutting strategies.He walked the committee through his list of suggested budget cuts (pdf), but legislators allowed these very politicized proposals to frame the terms of debate. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
Did the Lege authorize inpatient beds when probation departments more immediately needed more outpatient treatment, as one probation director has suggested? [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 12:20 pm
" (The message here to judges and CSCD directors: Use it or lose it!) [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 9:08 am
Executive Director Brad Livingston reported that as of January 31, TDCJ had just 512 vacancies among correctional officer slots, down from around 4,000 vacancies in fall of 2007. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 5:42 pm
That's a better strategy than sitting back and hoping the 2007 reforms will be enough to solve TDCJ's problems, when clearly more needs to be done. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
Also, executive director Brad Livingston will report to the board on correctional officer staffing and prison health issues. [read post]
