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27 Aug 2017, 6:00 am
When that passed, we thought it would for the most part only affect those Tulia defendants, but it's become a prominent and important feature of many modern, Texas exonerations.Prison evacuationsSeveral thousand TDCJ inmates housed in units along the Brazos River were evacuated because of flooding, something which is becoming more or less an annual event. [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 8:38 am
Estelle, Ferguson, Lewis, Beto, Michael, Telford, Connally, McConnell, Torres, and Allred were among those units with the highest reported number of criminal sexual assaults.RELATED:Report on prison rape from the Texas Association Against Sexual AssaultMost TDCJ sexual assault victims housed in just a few units, most victimized by staffAbbott intends to comply with federal prison rape regs [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 6:02 am
Based on various studies by academics and practitioners, Grits has estimated in the past that perhaps 1.5 to 2.5 percent of TDCJ inmates at any given time are actually innocent people falsely convicted. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 12:03 pm
Go here to send your own email.A former TDCJ guard was sentenced to 180 days in jail for allowing two inmates to attack a third then attempting to cover it up.Charges were dismissed against two Harris County jailers who left a Class B pot defendant in a cell filled with feces and garbage then tampered with records to cover it up. [read post]
27 Jul 2017, 4:00 am
In the latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast from Just Liberty, we broadcast a brief excerpt from a conversation between me and Texas House Corrections Committee Chairman James White. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 7:26 am
That pattern holds even for counties sending inmates to TDCJ at exceptionally high rates.To me, this dynamic argues for exploring more seriously a cap-and-trade program where counties are assigned a share of aggregate bed-years every year. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 5:11 pm
Check out the latest "Reasonably Suspicious" podcast from Just Liberty, hosted by your correspondent and Amanda Marzullo of the Texas Defender Service. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 4:08 pm
For example, as Grits wrote in February:The most important unfunded mandate in the criminal-justice system comes from local government decision makers - especially prosecutors and judges - making choices about imprisonment at TDCJ for which state government must pay 100 percent of the costs. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 8:34 am
First, the ruling only applies to one TDCJ unit, not all of them, and Grits is unclear of how this ruling might affect other facilities. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 7:09 am
.* Before someone suggests it, keeping the State Counsel for Offenders as an arm of TDCJ instead of making it independent, like the SPA, has prevented it from ever aspiring to play such a role. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 11:22 am
The article included this short video:Litigation over weather-related deaths at TDCJ heats upAfter years of anticipation, TDCJ finds itself in trial this week to determine whether their un-air conditioned prisons which have caused numerous heat-related deaths constitute unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.Straight ticket voting ends for Texas judges in 2020The Legislature this year eliminated straight ticket voting for judicial elections beginning in 2020. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 4:42 pm
Executions are slowing, but not by as much as last year's numbers would indicate.What a screwupNever convicted, he still spent 35 years locked up in TDCJ: Jerry Hartfield was released this week.Documenting Texas forensic reformsNicole Casarez and Sandra Guerra Thompson have a new academic paper out posted on SSRN last month discussing Texas forensic reforms. [read post]
31 May 2017, 6:59 am
That change coupled with declining crime made it possible to close four additional prisons in the next TDCJ budget.But this year, that progress halted. [read post]
13 May 2017, 8:28 am
Few bills of any stripe have been sent to the Governor yet, but a number of good bills are still moving throughout the process and have a decent chance of passage.For starters, both the House and Senate budgets envision closing four more TDCJ prison units, continuing a happy and fortuitous trend. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:34 am
It's possible shuttered TDCJ units could end up doing federal immigrant detention, but many other empty jail facilities owned by counties will be competing for those beds, too. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 4:56 am
Last year, Grits lodged a complaint that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Annual Statistical Report needn't take a full year to produce after each fiscal year ends.To their credit, TDCJ responded by bumping up the release date of the report by many months. 2016 data is online now, whereas in years past the report inexplicably hasn't come out until August.Thanks to TDCJ chief Brian Collier and his staff for moving up the timeline. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 6:42 am
(Source for all TDCJ stats in this post.) [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 8:40 am
Jarvis Johnson to create an independent ombudsman for TDCJ comparable to the one aimed at juvenile facilities which was created after the 2007 sex-assault scandals. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 4:36 pm
If you have a loved one in the Texas Prison System, learn more at our TDCJ Inmate Search page. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 2:43 pm
"With half of offenders entering prison coming from this source, reducing revocations is a big potential cost saver for TDCJ. [read post]
