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22 Sep 2020, 7:41 am
Certainly, most of TDCJ's deaths arise from just a handful of units, so maybe the problem is more isolated, even, than just prisons vs. jails. [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 1:16 pm
CSCDs that did not receive additional diversion funding showed increases in felony revocations to TDCJ. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:03 am
TDCJ has been getting more people applying with college degrees, but turnover remains absurdly high despite the recession. [read post]
16 Aug 2018, 8:50 am
IMO the rural settings wouldn't matter and TDCJ could easily fill its positions if prison guards here made as much as in California, for example, where the union is politically powerful and starting salaries are around double what they are here.Texas spends $3.5 billion per year on TDCJ, which sounds like a lot, but given our highest-in-the-country prison population numbers, we're pretty chintzy when it comes to spending on state prisons, a point I made in the… [read post]
15 May 2011, 9:41 am
And if [TDCJ] 'reasonably expects' to continue this policy, it does so at its peril. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 6:39 am
UTMB, presumably with TDCJ's approval and cooperation, asked mentally ill inmates upon intake whether they'd consent to a novice practicing on them to draw blood. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 3:56 am
The Court rejected a motion for rehearing on In re Matt Johnson the mandamus case where the trial court ordered TDCJ to take funds out the defendant's trust account to pay court costs). [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 6:01 am
Results from three new surveys by the Urban Institute provide a lot of new detail and analysis regarding barriers to successful reentry for prisoners returning from TDCJ to Houston. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 2:16 am
(TDCJ's parole division makes recommendation, but the parole board must finally approve inmates' release.) [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 7:06 am
During the Sunset process last year, they were turned down when they suggested TDCJ close the unit and build a new one somewhere else. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 5:41 am
Mothballing of a small TDCJ facility in downtown Houston has begun, reported the Houston Business Journal. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 5:45 am
Senate okays bill to release sickest inmates, San Jose Mercury NewsDying on the state's dime, The Texas TribuneEmily Ramshaw at the Tribune offered this graph showing how many sick or disabled inmates are approved for medical release by the parole board compared to how many were recommended by TDCJ and Texas' Correctional Managed Health Care Commitee: [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 3:35 am
[JURIST] The State of Texas executed death row inmate Bobby Wayne Woods [TDCJ profile] by lethal injection Thursday, over the objections of lawyers who argued Woods was mentally impaired and thus could not be executed under federal law. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 5:22 am
It's been 375 days since the fiscal year ended and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice still has not issued its annual statistical report for FY 2017.Last year, the FY 2016 report came out in April.That is all.UPDATE: TDCJ told the Houston Chronicle's Keri Blakinger the report may be out as early as next week. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 7:48 am
[JURIST] US Supreme Court [official website] Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday ordered a stay of execution [text, PDF] for Cleve Foster [TDCJ profile; case materials], a former Army recruiter and convicted murderer. [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 6:48 am
Nearly half the deaths happened in TDCJ units. [read post]
18 Jun 2008, 2:38 pm
TDCJ-ID (Tex.App. - Houston [1st Dist.] [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 3:20 pm
According to TDCJ, 12 more executions are scheduled in 2008; more may be added. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 7:31 am
The Back Gaters recommended (WARNING: Profanity-laced; not safe for work) this video from a former TDCJ Correctional Officer describing what it's like to work in a Texas prison. [read post]
15 Nov 2008, 9:59 am
TDCJ's statewide lockdown searching for cell phones has met with some success, but now that it's mostly over and new procedures are in place, they're still finding contraband, most recently again on death row, the Houston Chronicle reports, where "Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row Friday found a cell phone secreted in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston" using the X-ray machine in the infirmary. [read post]
