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31 Jan 2018, 7:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The chair of TJJD's board is also gone, and the executive director of the agency had already been replaced by the head of Gov. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 3:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A number of other attorneys were also directed to change legal strategies in particular cases when the SCFO Director returned from the TDCJ Board meeting. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 4:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
TDCJ denies the problem, but the Texas Inmate Family Association identified a couple of dozen underheated units, notably including the Allred Unit near Wichita Falls. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I'm Scott Henson, Policy Director at Just Liberty, here today with our good friend, Amanda Marzullo, whose day job is Executive Director at the Texas Defender Service. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For example, Texas' 2007 reforms created new "Intermediate Sanctions Facilities" which, while much-derided by Andy Kahan and certain probation directors, have performed an important function of reducing the proportion parolees revoked back to TDCJ to serve their full sentences based on petty violations or low-level crimes. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 6:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(Grits interviewed one of the litigants, Texas Fair Defense Project Executive Director Becky Bernhardt, when the litigation launched last fall.)Harris County lost Round One in federal district court. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 12:03 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a few odds and ends that caught Grits' eye while I'm focused elsewhere:More than 1,200 Texans have emailed DPS Director Steve McCraw in the last week urging the agency to adopt rules proposed by Just Liberty and its allies to rein in arrests by state troopers for Class C non-jailable offenses. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 5:11 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Hello boys and girls, this is Scott Henson with another Just Liberty podcast recorded in Austin, Texas, July 21st, 2017 with our good friend Amanda Marzullo, executive director of the Texas Defender Service. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 6:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But autopsy results and medical records revealed he was extremely malnourished and significant medical problems had long been neglected by TDCJ which also contributed to his death. [read post]
21 Aug 2016, 9:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
New executive director Brian Collier told the Houston Chronicle that cutting further would require "reductions in convict health care, meals, as well as prison and parole operations. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 7:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Former executive director Brad Livingston didn't have the guts to tell the Lege, "the only way you can cut nine figures in our budget is to incarcerate fewer people. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 3:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
(See also the brief from William Stephens, director of the Institutional Division at TDCJ, as Respondent in the case, supporting the state's position and Buck's sentence.)It's unusual to see a judge openly wishing for her colleagues to get reversed. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 10:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Does this argue for placing one or more of these units on a possible closure list, or was flooding a one-off, as TDCJ officials are telling the press? [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
People just find probation terms too difficult and a portion of them give up and stop complying, tempting fate and more importantly for our purposes, incarceration in TDCJ. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 10:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Long-time TDCJ executive director Brad Livingston retired recently. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The State brought a former executive director of Council of Sex Offender Treatment (CSOT) to testify regarding the differences between the outpatient and inpatient programs and the clinical director of the TCCC to testify about the advantages of inpatient treatment program. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"From TDCJ, "Report to Governor and Legislative Budget Board on the Monitoring of Community Supervision Diversion Funds," Dec. 1, 2015. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 1:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
She's now Director of the Prison Justice League, a membership organization whose 1,000+ members are all incarcerated Texas prisoners. [read post]
25 Jul 2015, 10:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Commission on Jail Standards issued Waller County a red card over inadequate monitoring:The jail was also cited for failure to personally observe an inmate at least once an hour, according to the Commission's executive director, Brandon Wood. [read post]