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4 Sep 2023, 10:08 am
” Under its latest pay increase, the beginning annual salary for a TDCJ correctional officer is $44,674. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 4:10 am
The Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice filed a series of affidavits assuring the court that these requests would be granted and moved dismiss the lawsuit as moot. [read post]
13 Jul 2022, 11:01 am
The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) is a federal organization led by Director Adam W. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 2:26 pm
In response, Plaintiff George Lee Tucker II brought this suit against Steve Gaddis, TDCJ's Deputy Director of Volunteer Services and Special Populations, in the hope of vindicating the rights of the Nation's adherents to congregate. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 4:48 am
The Texas Rangers may have stopped using this particular junk-science technique, but the topic won't finally go away until the courts do.* I was Policy Director at the Innocence Project of Texas for 8 years and conceived of and negotiated with prosecutors to pass Texas' junk-science writ. [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 2:14 pm
This logic allows TDCJ to protect inmates housed in the state prison system while causing the local jails to become breeding centers for the virus. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 4:35 pm
In Nebraska, last week the agency mandated masks for employees (and the prison director posed in one to make the point). [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 3:56 am
So it takes a lot of chutzpah for TDCJ to blame families for contraband! [read post]
19 Jan 2019, 6:38 am
Suicide attempts at TDCJ are quite high. [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
Her story on TDCJ denying dentures to toothless, elderly inmates ended with an amazing outcome: The agency agreed to change its policy and began delivering 3D-printed dentures to inmates by this fall. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 7:32 am
" At yesterday's House Corrections Committee hearing, however, TDCJ executive director Bryan Collier said the agency now estimates the cost to install air conditioning at $4 million, a more than 80 percent reduction from their original estimate. [read post]
26 Aug 2018, 6:31 am
TDCJ has the data, which they compile for internal monthly reports that aren't posted on their website. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 3:06 pm
Up to 50,000 prisoners have Hep C, TDCJ officials have estimated, which means they make up around nine percent of the total 580,000 estimated cases statewide. [read post]
30 May 2018, 2:46 pm
“Any days of a male-dominated culture are long gone,” said Lorie Davis, director of TDCJ’s Institutional Division and the highest-ranking woman in the agency. [read post]
9 May 2018, 7:36 am
Indeed, as I implied at the end of my reaction to the commenter, it appears hardly anyone has noticed or minded at all, except the probation directors and criminal-defense lawyers whose revenue plunged with the drop in cases.* While 2017 data is out for Texas courts, we haven't seen data more recently than FY 2016 (which ended 21 months ago) on either arrests (DPS) or prison/parole/probation systems (TDCJ). [read post]
7 May 2018, 12:03 pm
After the 5th Circuit said TDCJ could be sued, I'd opined that, "Grits expects TDCJ to ultimately lose the pending heat litigation and for the Legislature to eventually find itself forced to implement significant mitigation measures to reduce heat exposure of inmates and guards. [read post]
7 May 2018, 7:01 am
Earlier this year, a TDCJ legislative handout put the number at 232,278, representing an astonishing 46 percent reduction! [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 7:22 am
To the Youthful Offender Program at TDCJ. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 6:42 am
TDCJ demanded he fork over a whopping $1,132,024.30 before the agency would release 260,000 pages of records that it said would take 61,000 hours of staff time to process. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm
Since then, the number of executions have declined, while the annual number of suicides in TDCJ has hovered in the low 30s. [read post]
