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21 May 2020, 2:01 pm
The TDCJ Correctional Security division and UTMB Managed Correctional Healthcare are exempt from cuts, but "Other parts of TDCJ's budget though — like parole, education/training programs, drug treatment, executives — seemingly will have to be in proposed 5% cut. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 10:42 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that a modest increase in the number of inmates at TDCJ may squelch efforts to close prisons, something that's been happening in other states. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 8:29 am
From the research I've seen, yoga and meditation have positive effects on in-prison behavior and recidivism, so limiting participation by one's declared religion to me seems like a counterproductive choice by TDCJ. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 12:08 pm
On Texas Public Radio, LBJ School instructor Michele Deitch and TDCJ guard union president Lance Lowry were interviewed yesterday on the subject of Gov. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 6:47 am
So his decision to use that pulpit to support radical cuts at TDCJ is perhaps telling. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 8:48 am
TDCJ has plenty of beds and the closure of two facilities did nothing to increase the burden on county jail populations. [read post]
6 May 2012, 12:57 pm
After the Texas Legislature finished its budget cutting last year and the dust finally settled, a whopping 39% of Texas state employee reductions in the last year came from two agencies: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and the recently merged Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD).TDCJ lost 2,035 FTEs (full-time equivalent positions), and TJJD lost 816.5, according to a recent state auditor's report (pdf). [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 3:31 am
The only problem with that scheme: Apparently nobody wants the job.Data from agency evaluations submitted to the Sunset Commission, see: TCLEOSE, TDCJ, TCJS. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 10:15 am
Checking Grits' news feeds upon returning from Mexico, I noticed a couple of stories related to prosecuting TDCJ prison guards that merit readers' attention. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 2:56 pm
In Michigan, state prisons arrest visitors who arrive with outstanding traffic warrants, running their names and arresting them while they wait, the Marshall Project reported.Grits emailed Jason Clark, spokesperson at TDCJ, to ask if Texas prisons did something similar. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 5:09 am
Emmett Solomon, a long-time TDCJ chaplain and founder of the Restorative Justice Ministries Network, a well-regarded clearinghouse and advocate for Texas prison ministries, passed away this week in Huntsville. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 8:55 am
The list of scheduled executions maintained by TDCJ is here.... [read post]
27 Nov 2006, 10:47 am
For readers who have not discovered Grits for Breakfast, it's an indispensable site for Texas criminal justice news and commentary and an alert watchdog of TDCJ. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 8:41 am
So far, those reductions have not resulted in a lower prison population.Confoundingly, despite declining crime, the number of people entering TDCJ each year has remained remarkably stable (TDCJ annual statistical reports are available online only back to 2005; ditto for revocation data from TDCJ-CJAD).TDCJ Admissions by Source Prison admissions due to probation revocations remained fairly steady since 2005, declining by a scant 3%. [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 6:09 am
I took this data from a fact sheet created by TDCJ-CJAD discussing research on the impact of probation revocations, both for technical violations and for new offenses, on Texas' prison population:Perhaps the most critical stat here: 37% of all probationers revoked to prison in Texas in 2006 were sentenced for a drug offense, more than any other category of offender. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:31 am
TDCJ is available in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 10:44 am
TDCJ has approved about 80,000 of more than 92,000 books sent to its inmates, according to database records. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 10:30 am
Texas inmates collectively spend more than $100 million per year at TDCJ commissaries. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 3:14 pm
I asked TDCJ under the Public Information Act and uploaded the details at this link. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 6:55 am
TDCJ has also found tobacco 87 times during the lockdown, marijuana 25 times. [read post]
