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18 Mar 2011, 4:52 am
"With the state facing a massive shortfall, members of a Senate Finance subcommittee said they can no longer justify the $65 million a year in state revenue used by the Windham School District to provide approximately 5,200 high school equivalency certificates and other vocational training programs. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 6:38 am
" Labbe takes aim at the Senate Finance Committee's call for cutting prison education programs at the Windham School District. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 9:18 am
Here are links for those interested:Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projections ReportJanuary 28, 2013 Criminal Justice Uniform Cost ReportsJanuary 28, 2013Statewide Criminal Justice Recidivism and Revocation Rates ReportJanuary 28, 2013 Windham School District Evaluation ReportsJanuary 28, 2013 Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project: A Second LookJanuary 28, 2013 [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 5:44 am
We're getting pretty deep into session for nobody to be talking about the big stuff yet.RELATED: Vocational ed boosts ex-offender employment: The counterargument to cuts at Windham School District [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 8:55 am
The average Texas prison inmate's reading and math skills are at a fifth grade level, the superintendent of TDCJ's Windham School District told the Senate Criminal Justice Committee this morning.Large numbers of the nearly 70,000 inmates leaving Texas prisons every year, he told the committee, do so without a GED. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 3:03 pm
The two that I know of are Terrance Windham and John Jocher. [read post]
5 Jul 2015, 7:12 am
James White, vice chair of the Corrections Committee, emailed yesterday to suggest I'd missed a few with which he was involved, particularly on the juvenile front:SB 183: Penalizing civil rights violations and improper sexual conduct with persons in custody.SB 409: Limiting dissemination of fingerprints from the juvenile system.SB 1024: Clarifying the authority of the Windham School District to issue high school diplomas.HB 431: Creating an advisory committee… [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 10:15 am
Now we have more than 155,000 inmates, said Haggerty, and Windham School District is "probably about the same size" as in 1993. [read post]
3 May 2011, 7:08 am
During the last major budget crunch, WISD also took a hit: "In 2003, Windham School District faced similar funding issues. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 8:46 am
Each year the Windham School District provides about half of the state’s 150,000 incarcerated felons with free high school equivalency certificates, literacy, life skills and vocational training classes. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 5:24 am
The Huntsville Item published a column this morning by Lyndol Richardson commemorating the lingering trauma to the town caused by a deadly, 11-day hostage episode 34 years ago stemming from an escape attempt gone bad:the siege ended with the deaths of two Windham School District employees, two of the hostage-takers and two hostages. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 8:03 am
Rodriguez, as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three (San Francisco). [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 10:59 am
Here's subscription information for those interested:The ECHO is a monthly censored publication compiled by inmate staff at the Windham School District's Media Center, under TDCJ guidelines for dedicated use by TDCJ offenders. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 10:51 am
Four Price wants to amend the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Sunset bill to require data sharing architecture between TDCJ, the parole board, the Windham School District and correctional managed healthcare, contending that "The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing." [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 3:28 pm
(And minor question: Is he related to then-school principal Scott Windham?) [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
Nobody at the Legislature is talking yet publicly about real budget solutions, in corrections or for the most part anywhere else, and it's getting pretty late in the game.See related Grits posts:Vocational ed boosts ex-offender employment: The counterargument to cuts at Windham School District Cuts to vocational ed for prisoners will increase recidivism, near-term incarceration costsWaste alleged, budget cuts sought at TDCJ's Windham… [read post]
10 May 2016, 3:59 am
Lynch, April 25, 2016 "States Examine Policies, Conditions for Solitary Confinement in Prisons," Interim News, House Research Organization, February 17, 2016 "Darrington Seminary Graduates First Class of Ministers," Criminal Justice Connections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, May/June 2015 Statewide Criminal and Juvenile Justice Recidivism and Revocation Rates, Legislative Budget Board, February 2015 Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration into the… [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm
Presently, the Sunset Advisory Commission has begun its review of TDCJ and other criminal justice-related agencies, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. [read post]
26 May 2012, 5:24 am
The Commission's report - which encompasses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - makes various recommendations with which TCJC agrees. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 5:14 am
And a plant that manufactures stainless-steel fixtures at the Boyd Unit in Teague has been closed and consolidated with a metal plant at the Luther Unit outside Navasota.Meanwhile, the Huntsville Item has a story on recent budget cuts at TDCJ's Windham School District which informs us that:As of Thursday, Windham had to eliminate 271 full-time employees, including 157 teachers in addition to adminstrative and support staff. [read post]
