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10 Sep 2021, 3:08 pm
The district judge said the TDCJ “will accommodate Ramirez’s religious beliefs by giving Ramirez access to his pastor on the day of execution and allowing him to stand nearby during the execution. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 3:08 pm
The district judge said the TDCJ “will accommodate Ramirez’s religious beliefs by giving Ramirez access to his pastor on the day of execution and allowing him to stand nearby during the execution. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 11:25 am
A long and controversial legislative session resulted in a mixed bag of new criminal laws in Texas. [read post]
21 May 2021, 5:46 am
And yet, every session, TDCJ's budget goes up and up.It turned out to be a myth that closing prison units would reduce the budget. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:32 am
And maybe also, just for cruelty's sake.BONUS: Check out [Cotton Picking Time in] Tulia, TX, a tune about TDCJ field workers written by my pal Jeff Frazier back in the day and sung by the great Malford Milligan. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 4:48 am
Flores' death-penalty case - marching forward through the system like zombies based on past convictions secured using this practice, and more people locked up in TDCJ or on parole whose convictions were tainted by the same junk science.I'm not a lawyer but Grits doesn't know if there's any way to help those folks if the CCA won't apply the junk-science writ. [read post]
8 Mar 2021, 4:44 pm
Thompson, Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee Chair James White, and exoneree Anthony Graves, who came on to talk to us about the TDCJ prison budget.The first half of the show takes a deep dive into the issue of Class C misdemeanor arrests, using the case of Dillon Puente out of Keller, Texas to spotlight the problem. [read post]
2 Mar 2021, 2:54 am
The group I lead, Just Liberty, is requesting they spend that money instead on two items: 1) Expanded treatment funding to move paroled prisoners out of lockups sooner, and 2) increasing prisoner food budgets by $17 million per year.We discussed the treatment funding in the last post; let's delve deeper into TDCJ food budgets.Food spending at TDCJ peaked at $106,601,431 paying for food for 155,076 inmates as of 8/31/09. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 3:01 pm
TDCJ has significant unfilled needs that those savings should pay for. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:28 am
It's been a crazy year, both for me personally (I underwent throat-cancer treatment and lost nearly 100 pounds) and for the state and nation generally, between COVID, the Trump un-election, and the massive protests surrounding Houstonite George Floyd's death that in many ways defined the year.If we were ranking criminal-justice stories, those protests would be the biggest one from any traditional newsroom perspective, even if the coronavirus in jails and prisons claimed more lives. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 11:58 am
TDCJ did not bid the second time around.Hundreds of death in custody reports delayed. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:00 am
But this year's declines aren't the only un-anticipated decrease at play.In recent years, the Texas Legislative Budget Board's projections for TDCJ's population have been consistently overstated. [read post]
21 Nov 2020, 5:50 am
For a while, TDCJ stopped taking prisoners from county jails. [read post]
8 Nov 2020, 10:29 am
TDCJ doesn't really save money until it actually closes units. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 11:28 am
This news means TDCJ can likely close multiple, additional units to save money instead. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 8:43 am
That's mainly because county jails for several months stopped sending new inmates to TDCJ, says Blakinger, but they started taking them again in June. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 11:15 am
What we do know is that felons leaving TDCJ already struggle mightily to find housing, particularly those with special needs who would most benefit from supportive housing options.This proposal makes Texas less safe and should be rejected, adamantly, by the TDHCA board.To communicate with TDHCA about the proposal, email comments to htc.public-comment@tdhca.state.tx.us. [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 8:12 am
"TX parole caseloads analyzed: This may get its own blog post soon, but I wanted to record the link for the new TDCJ parole officer caseload study. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 7:41 am
Certainly, most of TDCJ's deaths arise from just a handful of units, so maybe the problem is more isolated, even, than just prisons vs. jails. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 11:43 am
But here's a short list of the major sources:Texas Criminal Justice Data Dashboard (county-level court data)Office of Court Administration reports, queriesTexas Justice Initiative (deaths in custody, police shootings)TDCJ Annual Statistical Reports (2018, last available)Texas Commission on Jail Standards population reportsTexas DPS: statewide arrest dataTX Commission on Law Enforcement: Racial profiling data by jurisdiction [read post]
