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21 Aug 2008, 10:28 am
(Perhaps a new DPS director will take a different position on that topic.)With that, Livingston concluded his testimony. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 10:50 am
Texas prison guards would get a 20% pay hike if TDCJ officials have their way, reports the Austin American Statesman ("Big raises sought for prison workers," Aug. 14):Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director, said the proposal would raise starting pay for correctional officers from $26,016 to $30,179 and the maximum salaries from $34,624 to $42,242. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 5:24 am
TDC Director W. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 5:34 pm
A recent state senate hearing admonished a clearly shaken TDCJ executive director over the unit's stats, that at the time were 46 so far this year. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 2:05 pm
Prior to his work at TDCJ, he was director of communications at the State Bar of Texas. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 8:23 pm
Whatever TDCJ says, goes, I guess.So there you have it. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 8:49 am
Here's a mind blowing statistic about health care costs in Texas prisons that came out at yesterday's Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing: A whopping 48% of TDCJ's total pharmacy budget goes to pay for drugs for inmates with HIV.Chairman Whitmire asked the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee executive director Alan Hightower to compile for him a list of the top ten most expensive inmates in terms of medical costs and their parole status. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 8:16 am
(TDCJ executive director Brad Livingston testified the average wait is down to 3 months for male inmates.)Whitmire and others rightly declared that TDCJ's goal should be to provide treatment before an inmate is eligible for parole, so that if that's all that's standing between them and freedom they could be processed sooner and free up space for more dangerous offenders. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 11:24 am
"Da Pope up for TDCJ admin jobLots of interesting posts over at The Back Gate, including news that former TYC executive director Dimitria Pope is a finalist at TDCJ for the director's job in Region 3.Quick, imprison them before they deport themselvesIf you can imagine, with immigration detention costs hovering around $70 per day, ICE is stopping people as they leave the United States in order to detain them, prosecute them, and then deport them, we learn… [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 7:55 am
"Our correctional officer staffing situation is the most urgent operational challenge we face as an agency," Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston said. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 10:17 am
Earlier today I published data from a TDCJ-CJAD (adult probation) report (pdf) in December, citing the results from several counties that received state grants aimed at reducing probation revocations. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 5:03 am
Raimer; the UTMB PR director contacted me to say that Raimer said 15%, not 50%, of doctor positions are vacant. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 1:23 am
Jay Kimbrough came in and fired dozens of people who had nothing to do with the agency's scandals, then under Ed Owens TDCJ cronies filled high-paying management jobs and newly created bureaucratic positions, while front-line employees worked double shifts and suffered retaliation for complaining about unsafe work conditions. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 3:51 am
There are readers on Grits for Breakfast, many of them Youth Commission employees, who think all this is happening because you want it to, because acting executive director Dimitria Pope and the crew of TDCJ transplants she has brought in are intentionally running the agency into the ground so that you can farm the contracts out instead to private prison firms or other contractors that may contribute to your campaign.My observation has been different: Even at the height of the… [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 1:05 am
Perhaps it's all perfectly legal, but a recent hire by the Geo Group, a large private prison firm formerly known as "Wackenhut," raises questions, at least, about an appearance of serious conflicts of interest:Former Texas Department of Criminal Justice chief Gary Johnson approved contracts to lease prisons from the Geo private prison group that he will now manage in his new position as Geo regional director, reports the Statesman's Mike Ward in a blog entry, via Texas… [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 12:34 am
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. [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 7:37 am
"Really, there is no recording made of the execution so the only record we have are those maintained by TDCJ and people's memories," Crawford said. [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 10:57 pm
Acting Executive Director Dimitria Pope suspended overtime payments in October after top Youth Commission officials were shocked to learn that the agency had used most of its annual overtime budget in just two months. [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 5:10 am
Guess where TDCJ OIG will be this holiday season. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 1:04 am
Acting TYC executive director Dimitria Pope told a legislative committee last month she was unaware of a problem with delays in transferring mentally ill youth. [read post]
