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11 Feb 2010, 4:46 am
Data on TDCJ unit age and costAs 2011 budget crisis looms, should most expensive prison units be closed? [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 4:42 am
Sustaining the state's probation revocation rate as one of the lowest in the country through graduated, diversion-based sanctions is key to keeping crime rates down and saving taxpayers millions in incarceration costs in coming years.According to Marty Griffith, director of the Williamson County Community Supervision and Corrections Department, "Because of the work of CSCDs across Texas, we have prevented three new prisons from being constructed — and having to operate three… [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 5:51 am
I'd don't care what title is in front of your name - Governor, Senator, TDCJ Executive Director, or for that matter, POTUS - announcing a "zero tolerance" policy on prison contraband sets up the person using that language to later be accused of gargantuan failure, as in the case of the escapee with a gun more than a year into TDCJ's zero-tolerance era. [read post]
8 Jan 2010, 7:04 am
"Ohio prisons Director Terry Collins said he was aware states across the country were watching. [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 6:59 am
"Zero tolerance" on contraband fails spectacularly: TDCJ spent most of the year combating contraband - especially cell phones - at Texas prison units, only to have an inmate successfully smuggle a gun onto a prison medical transport and escape from custody. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 5:50 am
DMS represents about half the number of TDCJ releases compared to parole, but it's still a large number.By my calculations, if DMS approval rates in 2008 had been the same as in 2004, the parole board would have released 1,450 more prisoners. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 7:54 am
The Huntsville Item reports, "TDCJ offender gets death penalty. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 12:01 pm
According to TDCJ, Skinner has a February 24, 2010 execution date. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 6:24 am
“It's time for the governor to take what should be the next step in making certain the chairman and TDCJ and his director and staff understand what zero tolerance really means. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 1:11 am
The rest of the senate committee and a few interested House members, however, stayed to listen to TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston give a brief report on contraband interdiction and the rollout of new rehab beds authorized during the last two sessions. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 4:27 am
OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE FOR CENSORING BOOKSCorpus Christi, TX - Prison Legal News (PLN), a non-profit monthly publication that reports on criminal justice-related issues, filed suit today in federal district court against Brad Livingston, Executive Director of the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), and other TDCJ officials. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 10:02 pm
Thus TDCJ's legal advice did not shield her from personal liability because they were advising her to ignore an order from the federal court.That also tells us something about the attitudes of legal counsel at TDCJ, doesn't it? [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 12:00 am
Take a look at TDCJ's Fugitive Watch web page. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 8:45 pm
I had experienced everything I was intended to experience in TDCJ. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 12:42 am
John Whitmire, TDCJ Inspector General John Moriarty, and others regarding a proposed bill by Sen. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:15 pm
In that light, raising guard pay by 20% would directly violate that pledge.But the state could use stimulus money to pay for other expenses and use the difference to offset increased guard pay without technically spending the surplus money, though the net effect would be essentially the same.According to TDCJ's in-house Connections magazine, boosting guard pay is still the agency's top legislative priority:Although the Department of Criminal Justice will be seeking additional… [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 12:55 pm
The group's Executive Director said "...officials' zeal for executions was not matched by public desire for new death sentences, as evidenced by the continued steep decline in the number of new inmates arriving on death row. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 8:58 am
TDCJ officials yesterday updated the Legislature publicly for the first time (to my knowledge) on the status of health care services provided by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) after the prison hospital located on the island was closed because of Hurricane Ike. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 6:55 am
Yesterday's Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing began with Chairman John Whitmire questioning Department of Criminal Justice executive director Brad Livingston regarding the recent lockdown targeting cell phones and other contraband.Livingston said TDCJ has found 132 cell phones so far on 22 units, including another one on death row, with 46 of those found patting down guards on the front end. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 9:42 am
"By the time Owens ascended from interim executive director to conservator in June 2007, TYC and other agencies had established widely publicized hotlines to gather complaints of abuse, past and present, some of which turned out to be credible and spawned a flurry of mostly negative media attention about the agency throughout much of the year. [read post]
