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5 Aug 2007, 4:16 am
Owens was TDCJ's assistant director under Brad Livingston, and was always well known as an example in how not to manage people, or to make good decisions. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 8:03 am
Related Grits coverage on TYC and the Owens family: Settled lawsuit alleges TYC's Ed Owens covered up sex abuse scandal at TDCJ! [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 9:10 am
From the Texas Probation Association, see a power point presentation (pdf) summarizing adult probation funding decisions in the new state budget approved during the 80th Legislature.Meanwhile, judges, probation directors and others involved in managing local probation departments should see this set of instructions from TDCJ on how to apply for new funding available to local departments. [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]
10 Jan 2018, 4:24 am
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]
13 Mar 2011, 8:16 am
However, TDCJ did not view this as an option and it was not in the proposed budget cuts listed by [TDCJ Executive Director Brad] Livingston. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 4:53 am
The executive director or his/her designee is the final approval authority for referral to court for a transfer hearing and for transfer to TDCJ Parole Division for youth not referred to court. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 4:22 am
However, that still leaves most private-prison firms unregulated in Texas beyond minimal oversight by contracting agencies (TDCJ, TYC, etc.). [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 5:58 am
We have to report to [TYC Executive Director] Dimitria Pope on "accomplishments" each month. [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]
18 Oct 2013, 7:19 am
"They house pretrial detainees who have not yet lost certain rights," said Brandon Wood, executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. [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]
1 Jul 2010, 5:09 am
Sylvester Turner's HB 2161, which requires Texas state agencies to facilitate getting drivers' licenses to former inmates upon release.Although Turner's legislation directed DPS to enter a memorandum of understanding with TDCJ and the Department of State Health Services to get departing inmates ID, DPS Director Steve McCraw testified at yesterday's House Corrections Committee hearing that he wasn't willing to commit to complying, claiming to do… [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 3:56 pm
"Remarkably - and this should be worrisome to local probation directors - one of the auditors' recommendations was that "TDCJ should consider reducing the funds it provides" to probation departments that don't provide all the data on probationers they're supposed to. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 3:56 pm
Remarkably - and this should be worrisome to local probation directors - one of the auditors' recommendations was that "TDCJ should consider reducing the funds it provides" to probation departments that don't provide all the data on probationers they're supposed to. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:15 pm
In that light, raising guard pay by 20% would directly violate that pledge.But the state could use stimulus money to pay for other expenses and use the difference to offset increased guard pay without technically spending the surplus money, though the net effect would be essentially the same.According to TDCJ's in-house Connections magazine, boosting guard pay is still the agency's top legislative priority:Although the Department of Criminal Justice will be seeking additional… [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
Did the Lege authorize inpatient beds when probation departments more immediately needed more outpatient treatment, as one probation director has suggested? [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 8:13 am
“To be quite honest, it’s a very rational decision” to choose incarceration over probation for many misdemeanor offenses, the director of the Bell/Lampassas County probation department told the Texas Tribune in a story titled "Many choosing jail time over probation," a subject we've discussed here on Grits for many years. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 5:48 am
To do that, however, would require changes in policy to reduce incarceration levels in addition to lowering TDCJ's budget. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 3:04 pm
But the TDCJ followed the law and rejected the date. [read post]
