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27 Jul 2012, 8:24 am by Steve Hall
The Virginia Department of Corrections said Friday that rocuronium bromide can now be used in the lethal injection cocktail. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 4:59 am by David Backes
TJJD Doing Blanket Review of Youths in Facilities (The Texas Tribune) The Texas Juvenile Justice Department is in the process of reviewing the histories of all youths in its detention centers to better assess security risks in the facilities. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 3:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, it should be pointed out, has similar latent value in its own vast real estate holdings.Privatizing healthcare in prisons and jails: Uncertainty when providers sellTwenty states have privatized some or all of their prison healthcare, reported Kaiser Health News. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 5:10 pm by Joe Sanders
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) officials confirmed that Herrera was a correctional officer with the Lopez State Jail in Edinburg. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 1:48 pm by Steve Hall
While Texas put to death Hearn as planned, in the state's first execution using a new process for lethal injection -- with one drug instead of a three-drug mix -- Georgia Department of Corrections postponed Hill's execution until Monday at 7 p.m. to also make the switch to the single sedative pentobarbital. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:44 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
Warren Hill was set to be executed Wednesday in Georgia, but after the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his petition for clemency [JURIST report] Monday, the Georgia Department of Corrections delayed his execution for several days in order to... [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 8:51 am by Steve Hall
And: Georgia's corrections department had been researching a switch for about a year, spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said Tuesday. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:41 am by Steve Hall
"The department has been using pentobarbital in its execution process and based upon the experience of other states and compentent medical testimony the drug has proven to be effective," said a statement released by the Department of Corrections. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:32 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation had an exceptionally good column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram adumbrating the growing role of individualized assessment in Texas corrections, which he argues should be reinforced in 2013 during the Sunset process. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 6:40 am by John Elwood
Department of the Treasury (relisted after the 10/7 Conference) Docket:  11-45 Issue(s):  Whether the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 11:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Courts, correction departments, local probation departments, and other agencies increasingly rely on this revenue to cover their expenses. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 3:21 am by SHG
In this case, the facility that GEO wants to run is the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation, a civil commitment center that houses and treats “sexually violent predators” who have already completed criminal sentences in a department of corrections facility but are deemed by a special court to be at risk of re-offending. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 3:39 pm by Steven Titch
For our purposes here, we will keep things in the context of Texas Hold ‘Em, today’s most popular poker game. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 1:13 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In addition, state health insurance exchanges—which are required to be functioning by 2014—would make it easier for corrections departments to sign inmates up for the program.So the question arises: Will the Texas Legislature expand Medicaid in 2014, or will the state thumb its nose at the new law and abstain from accepting additional federal healthcare money? [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 7:39 am by David Doniger
”  The court specifically rejected Texas’s claim that EPA needed to be able to draw a bright line between the concentration of carbon pollution that is safe and the concentration where it becomes dangerous. [read post]