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14 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
As culture wars rage, it can help state executives shore up their home bases and amplify their agendas to a new, national audience. [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]
28 Apr 2016, 10:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Long-time TDCJ executive director Brad Livingston retired recently. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 10:54 am by Don Cruse
BRAD LIVINGSTON, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, No. 13-0867 Chosen for future argument by order issued February 20, 2015 ROYSTON, RAYZOR, VICKERY, & WILLIAMS, LLP v. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 10:54 am by Don Cruse
BRAD LIVINGSTON, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, No. 13-0867 Set to be argued on March 25, 2015 ROYSTON, RAYZOR, VICKERY, & WILLIAMS, LLP v. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 11:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" From the memo from executive director Brad Livingston at the front of the budget: According to university providers, additional funding of $174.8 million is critical to maintain operations and ensure effective overall quality of care within the system and deliver the level of services required by minimum standards. [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here's a notable excerpt from the story:A federal panel has refused to coordinate lawsuits filed on behalf of inmates in Texas state prisons who died or suffered heat strokes from soaring temperatures during the summers of 2011 and 2012.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and its executive director, Brad Livingston, represented by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, moved on July 14 to transfer seven cases for pretrial purposes to U.S. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Under the leadership of a new executive director, Brad Livingston, who was appointed in 2005, the agency had grown more skittish about media attention, and Michelle’s attempts to grant access to journalists or be proactive about press coverage were increasingly discouraged. [read post]
17 Feb 2014, 5:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
TDCJ has increased recruiting bonuses for corrections officers willing to work in understaffed, rural units, reported the Huntsville Item (Feb. 7):The Texas prison system has sweetened the pot to attract potential correctional officers to units dealing with staffing problems around the state.Last month, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston approved increasing the recruiting bonus to $4,000 for new correctional officers… [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 12:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Arguably that's a bigger problem for the agency than the risk that Brad Livingston or Sharon Howell might leave for higher paying gigs elsewhere in Huntsville. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 6:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The insider told the Backgate that after the March 2013 murder of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements that someone implemented a secret service style personal protective unit for TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 4:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Austin Statesman reported last evening that Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, received a whopping $73,000 raise in the most recently approved state budget - nearly a 40% increase. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 8:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“It’s taken us a while to move those operations,” said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 7:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(Such a program exists for inmates released receiving HIV medications, but not for the mentally ill.)Another 469 individuals during FY 2011 were paroled directly from ad-seg, Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) executive director Brad Livingston told the committee. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
About 80% of new recruits drop out, so TDCJ must hire and train five newbies to end up with one, fully trained, more experienced CO down the line.In the near term, TDCJ plans to institute recruiting bonuses to hire more staff, though heaven knows where the money will come from given the agency's already overstrapped budget:to ease the chronic staffing shortages at Connally and six other state prisons, Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive… [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"We have very well-developed plans on what this new regional care network would look like and are moving forward to whatever transition may be necessary," said Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 1:21 pm by Bruce Carton
Whitmire promptly shot off a letter to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, stating that it was "extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," and that if the practice wasn't stopped immediately he would introduce legislation to end it. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 8:00 am by Jeralyn
John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wrote in a letter to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 7:45 am by Steve Hall
"They will receive the same meal served to other offenders" in the prison, said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:32 pm by Nathan Koppel
Whitmire wrote a letter Thursday to Brad Livingston, the executive Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees state prisons, citing the Brewer case and calling for an immediate end to the last-meal ritual. [read post]