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11 Aug 2016, 7:59 am
That's plenty for TDCJ to shutter at least one or two units. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 8:56 am
According to TDCJ's "high value data set" (xls), which is a master-list of prisoners updated quarterly, as of this writing (8/10) there are 146,968 inmates locked up in TDCJ. [read post]
17 Jul 2016, 5:44 am
For example, TDCJ's budget grew by a whopping $458.4 million in its last biennial budget, increasing to an all-funds total of $6.7 billion per biennium.Grits calculated a few years ago that TDCJ's spending grew 274% more than inflation and population growth combined between 1982 and 2012. [read post]
3 Jul 2016, 5:35 am
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and prisoner costs were not among those exceptions.In the last legislative session, TDCJ's budget "increased by $458.4 million for the 2016–17 biennium," or about 7.4 percent, to pay for employee raises and prisoner healthcare.By contrast, a 4 percent cut in General Revenue funds would exceed a quarter of a billion dollars! [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 3:57 am
This news could bump the Pack Unit up on the list of the most likely next TDCJ units the Legislature may consider closing. [read post]
19 Jun 2016, 8:00 am
TDCJ must release that many every year or the system would become overcrowded and overrun. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 8:10 am
An excerpt: Prisoner Plaintiffs Teddy Norris Davis and Robbie Dow Goodman appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of prison officials within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”). [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 8:40 am
Folks can disagree in good faith here.In favor of in-person visitationCheck out a cool interview with our pal Jorge Renaud in a publication called The Establishment on the grassroots pushback against elimination of in-person visitation at prisons and jails.Offender Orientation manualA new version of the TDCJ Offender Orientation manual came out in April.Williamson County DAs keep embarrassing local voters Between John Bradley and now Jana Duty, who was disciplined by the state bar for… [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 7:15 am
TDCJ's Stringfellow Unit, photo via AP. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 3:13 pm
(See also the brief from William Stephens, director of the Institutional Division at TDCJ, as Respondent in the case, supporting the state's position and Buck's sentence.)It's unusual to see a judge openly wishing for her colleagues to get reversed. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 10:35 am
Does this argue for placing one or more of these units on a possible closure list, or was flooding a one-off, as TDCJ officials are telling the press? [read post]
24 May 2016, 8:16 am
Thoughts on visitationSome of the content of this TDCJ 2014 report on visitation looks familiar but the format does not and it doesn't appear I've linked to it before. [read post]
19 May 2016, 4:50 am
As of Aug. 31, 2014, right at half of TDCJ prisoners were eligible for parole, according to the 2014 annual statistical report, p. 17. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:37 am
People just find probation terms too difficult and a portion of them give up and stop complying, tempting fate and more importantly for our purposes, incarceration in TDCJ. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:30 am
TDCJ's Community Justice Assistance Division chief Cary Welebob mentioned a document Grits hadn't seen from the Office of Court Administration - a Study of the Necessities of Certain Court Costs and Fees in Texas - during her testimony this morning before the House Corrections and Criminal Jurisprudence Committees. [read post]
12 May 2016, 5:53 am
Also, for details on county-level reentry services, see TDCJ's Reentry Resource Guide.Jails and mental health screeningHere's an interesting TV news story out of San Antonio about new mental health screening procedures at the county jail.Texas' 'merry-go-round for the criminally insane'The Star-Telegram had a good story Sunday about an Arlington man who'd bounced back and forth between the county jail and a state hospital seeking competency restoration, stuck… [read post]
10 May 2016, 3:59 am
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2015 Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 3 - Sale of criminal histories), House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, January 2015 Criminal Records in the Digital Age: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Reform in Texas, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, The University of Texas School of Law, March 2013 Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers… [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:26 pm
TDCJ On-hand:Violent: 10,396 upProperty: 4,643 downDrug: 5,679 downOther: 1,299 upReductions achieved in property and drug offender totals were nearly entirely offset by the increased number of violent offenders, who as of Aug. 31, 2014 made up 55.6 percent of TDCJ's population totals. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 10:17 am
Long-time TDCJ executive director Brad Livingston retired recently. [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 9:58 am
" That study found that, “With increasing distance from TDCJ prison units, the HIV infection rate of the general public decreases. [read post]
