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14 Apr 2016, 12:02 pm
” The TDCJ had no response to the EFF’s argument. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 8:03 am
TDCJ can't by rule take those away. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 6:29 am
TDCJ houses thousands of sex offenders, most of whom serve their full sentences, or close to them, because the parole board won't let them out. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 1:39 pm
His brother, who spent most of his childhood and young adult life incarcerated – first in the Waco State School from age 8 and later in TDCJ until age 32 – is now 68 years old, has never earned more than $10 an hour and has never had health benefits. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 8:41 am
In other words, TDCJ knew full well what the man needed and the guard denied him, anyway. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 11:52 am
Nicole Cobler of the Texas Tribune reports that as of December 2015, the TDCJ recorded 9,158 Texas prisoners as being under ICE detainers, 6,698 of whom were in the U.S. illegally. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 7:01 am
If you're in Austin, it's a chance to see a cool event and support the Prison Justice League's important work organizing state prisoners currently incarcerated in TDCJ. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 10:15 am
According to TDCJ spokesman Robert Hurst, the average cost of housing Texas inmates is about $20,000 a year, but medical and end-of-life expenses hike that figure to some $30,000 for elderly inmates. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 1:32 pm
According to that source, about 16 percent of TDCJ offenders on hand as of Aug. 31, 2014 were incarcerated for a drug offense as the primary charge, or 24,005 inmates out of roughly 150,000 incarcerated in TDCJ that day. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
And with legislators seriously discussing possible reductions in sentences for low-level drug possession, the possibility arises that Texas could close even more prison units in 2017, particularly so-called "state jails" (which in essence house people convicted of fourth-degree felonies, known in Texas penal-code parlance as "state jail felonies").To begin thinking about this question, Grits asked TDCJ's Jason Clark for a list of private prison contracts up next… [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:52 am
Dissatisfied with TDCJI'd not looked at results from TDCJ's 2014 "customer satisfaction survey" which interviewed county officials and offender advocate groups. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 11:29 am
In 2013, TDCJ reported a 20.6 percent turnover rate across all positions, while correctional officers had an even higher turnover rate - 24 percent. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm
After Nancy Bunin did such a great job of analyzing Texas' sex-offender civil commitment legislation this spring, I asked her to author a guest post explaining the import of a recent, widely publicized ruling declaring the program unconstitutional and releasing the first Texas sex offender ever from civil commitment restrictions. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 6:18 am
One imagines TDCJ's review is fairly pro forma. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 8:30 am
"Water outage ends at two TDCJ unitsNearly 2,000 prisoners and 400 staff at two Texas women's prison units, Hobby and Marlin, were without running water from Thanksgiving until Dec. 9, according to news reports. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:25 am
"From TDCJ, "Report to Governor and Legislative Budget Board on the Monitoring of Community Supervision Diversion Funds," Dec. 1, 2015. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 10:43 am
For offenders who did not receive the presumptive finding, TDCJ would continue to provide judicial notification of diligent participation credit eligibility and judges would maintain discretion in awarding diligent participation credit. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 1:30 pm
These are folks who are representing themselves in a court of law fighting conditions of confinement. usually, but some other cases as well, and who are pretty good at filing complaints, but lack resources - whether they be, you know, legal research or particular texts in the law library, most of the TDCJ unit law libraries are really terrible – but who can’t get past summary judgment because of some procedural obstacle that with some help they could possibly get past and… [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 9:34 pm
And indeed, the only inappropriate behavior was on TDCJ’s part. [read post]
1 Nov 2015, 9:49 am
Dan Patrick assigned an interim charge on ad seg in Texas not because he's following the UN's lead; it's that the situation has become so critical it can no longer be ignored either by state leaders or at the global level.Related Grits posts:First TDCJ prisoners pass 30-year mark in solitary confinementMore inmates in solitary in Texas than entire prison systems in 12 other states combined On the perils of reentry following solitary confinement and possible… [read post]
