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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The chair of TJJD's board is also gone, and the executive director of the agency had already been replaced by the head of Gov.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]
5 Feb 2010, 4:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Sustaining the state's probation revocation rate as one of the lowest in the country through graduated, diversion-based sanctions is key to keeping crime rates down and saving taxpayers millions in incarceration costs in coming years.According to Marty Griffith, director of the Williamson County Community Supervision and Corrections Department, "Because of the work of CSCDs across Texas, we have prevented three new prisons from being constructed — and having to operate three… [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
To the credit of Director Brad Livingston, he did emphatically point out the likely negative impact of the proposed cuts if actually made in the TDCJ budget. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 10:19 am
That gives the inmate time to make arrangments with friends and relatives or access re-entry services, which in an ideal world TDCJ would help facilitate.That makes a lot of sense from a management perspective. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 8:04 am by Steve Hall
Instead, the legislature has left the lethal injection protocol to the discretion of the director of the Correctional Institutions Division of the TDCJ – a prison official with no medical training. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 5:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“The voters really aren’t showing us the way on these kinds of things,” said Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 12:00 am
Take a look at TDCJ's Fugitive Watch web page. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 10:02 pm
Thus TDCJ's legal advice did not shield her from personal liability because they were advising her to ignore an order from the federal court.That also tells us something about the attitudes of legal counsel at TDCJ, doesn't it? [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 12:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
For reasons frequently discussed on this blog, it's unwise and unworkable to make such deep cuts in probation without the prison population expanding significantly in the near term.No more TDCJ pay hikes Central administration at TDCJ will take an 11% cut, but the executive director and the chair of the Board of Pardons and Paroles will get to keep raises they received in 2010 (2.6% and 10%, respectively). [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 9:06 am by Steve Hall
  According to TDCJ, six executions are curretnly scheduled in Texas. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This is interesting; from a press release reprinted in the Huntsville Item:The G4 Faith Based Row, a program launched in the Wynne Unit in Huntsville, received the Governor’s 2010 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award in recognition of its dedication to ministering to offenders incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [last week].The award was presented by Texas Board of Criminal Justice Chairman Oliver Bell, and TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston… [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 5:34 am
" Meanwhile Governor Perry appointed Ed Owens, husband of Board of Pardons and Parole Chair Rissie Owens, as the new executive director of TYC. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 12:55 pm
The group's Executive Director said "...officials' zeal for executions was not matched by public desire for new death sentences, as evidenced by the continued steep decline in the number of new inmates arriving on death row. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 6:27 am
Owens whether she thinks its a conflict of interest that her husband Ed is deputy director of TDCJ, and whether she thinks any of the Sunset recommendations to reduce conflicts of interest on the parole board were because of that relationship? [read post]
25 May 2007, 1:47 am
But TDCJ does allow people with misdemeanor convictions to work in other positions, and that's what I intended to allow at TYC. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 6:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As a local probation director bluntly told the Amarillo Globe-News, "If I lose things, it's going to mean more people going to prison. [read post]