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6 Jun 2013, 4:05 am
The Austin Statesman reported last evening that Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, received a whopping $73,000 raise in the most recently approved state budget - nearly a 40% increase. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 10:17 am
Long-time TDCJ executive director Brad Livingston retired recently. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 10:44 am
At a House Appropriations Committee meeting today, House Corrections Chairman Jim McReynolds asked TDCJ chief Brad Livingston if private prison-contracts up for renewal might increase their rates and increase costs for the state.Livingston said that was possible, since contracts covering the 12,000 or so private beds for which TDCJ contracts are 5-7 years old. [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]
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]
21 Aug 2008, 10:28 am
The House Corrections Committee began its hearing this morning with testimony from Brad Livingston, E.D. of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 9:36 am
Of two Texas Youth Commission facilities transferred to the adult prison system, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston told the Senate Criminal Justice Committee yesterday, the agency has only opened one so far, adding 606 beds, and has no immediate plans to open the second one.The decline in probation revocations thanks to new treatment and diversion funds had "a lot to do with" the reduced demand for new beds, said Livingston. [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]
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]
28 Dec 2010, 2:04 pm
Reacting to this Grits post, Matt Kelley at Change.org's Criminal Justice blog has created an online petition titled "It's Time to Close Prisons in Texas," asking Texas Department of Criminal Justice chief Brad Livingston to consider prison closures in budget cutting plans being prepared for the legislative session next spring. [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]
17 Aug 2013, 6:14 am
The insider told the Backgate that after the March 2013 murder of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements that someone implemented a secret service style personal protective unit for TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 4:27 am
Livingston, U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 7:38 am
I turned on the House Appropriations Committee hearing first thing this morning to listen to exceedingly brief presentations from the Legislative Budget Board and TDCJ chief Brad Livingston about the prison system. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 8:25 am
According to Brad Livingston, 74 of Texas' 109 facilities have some level of mental health presence. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 4:29 am
Still, judging from commentary from the bench during oral arguments at the Fifth Circuit in the Texas case, if I were TDCJ Chief Mugwump Brad Livingston, I think I'd be pricing air conditioners and the cost of installing and using them at dozens of Texas prison units, if not all of them. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 8:48 am
Under the leadership of a new executive director, Brad Livingston, who was appointed in 2005, the agency had grown more skittish about media attention, and Michelle’s attempts to grant access to journalists or be proactive about press coverage were increasingly discouraged. [read post]
17 Feb 2014, 5:52 am
TDCJ has increased recruiting bonuses for corrections officers willing to work in understaffed, rural units, reported the Huntsville Item (Feb. 7):The Texas prison system has sweetened the pot to attract potential correctional officers to units dealing with staffing problems around the state.Last month, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston approved increasing the recruiting bonus to $4,000 for new correctional officers willing to sign one-year… [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 6:28 am
Here's a notable excerpt from the story:A federal panel has refused to coordinate lawsuits filed on behalf of inmates in Texas state prisons who died or suffered heat strokes from soaring temperatures during the summers of 2011 and 2012.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its executive director, Brad Livingston, represented by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, moved on July 14 to transfer seven cases for pretrial purposes to U.S. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 8:44 am
At the Texas House Corrections Committee meeting this morning, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston said the House budget markup on prison healthcare gave the agency $85 million of the $174.8 million extra that they said in their Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) would be required to meet "minimum standards" in the coming biennium.This news raises several questions which remain unasked after this morning's session: Which standards will TDCJ fail to meet under the budget… [read post]
