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21 Aug 2016, 9:20 am
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]
16 Feb 2011, 5:26 am
To request authorization to increase a rate, the Executive Director of the Department of Criminal Justice shall submit a written request to the Health and Human Services Commission and the Legislative Budget Board. [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]
22 Feb 2013, 9:48 am
TDCJ chief Brad Livingston had told the subcommittee such an increase would bring the agency's healthcare budget back up to levels during the 2010-11 biennium. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 11:16 am
That cannot stand at current prison population levels.Slight cuts were suggested for local probation departments, ignoring TDCJ's request for more funds and probation directors' request to help with rising health insurance costs. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am
Might universities cease providing health care in the Texas prison system, reverting to TDCJ-employed doctors at the agency's 85 in-prison health clinics? [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]
27 Sep 2011, 8:22 am
The SA Express News over the weekend reported on the case of Randall Church, who says he committed arson soon after being released from TDCJ because he couldn't handle life in the free world and wanted to go back to prison. [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]
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]
13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am
However, their probation director has persuasively argued that since-rectified data-gathering deficiencies - for many years they didn't even gather revocation data (!) [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:37 am
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]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am
And while inmates can appeal a ruling by requesting a review from a TDCJ committee, Medlock said 87 percent of appeals are denied. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 2:35 pm
When TDCJ was given extra money for raises to front-line prison staff in 2009, they dipped into those funds to give substantially larger pay hikes to administrators. [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]
1 Aug 2017, 12:03 pm
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]
2 Jun 2016, 3:13 pm
(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
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]
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]
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]
