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30 May 2015, 10:50 am
General Revenue Funds are increased by $458.4 million for the 2016–17 biennium and include $188.0 million for an 8.0 percent pay increase for TDCJ correctional and parole officers, and a $139.4 million increase for Correctional Managed Health Care. [read post]
27 May 2015, 4:20 pm
So, what the law just says is the court will set a date and the death warrant will be served on TDCJ. [read post]
23 May 2015, 4:49 am
The Justice Department’s list of certifications and assurances is not complete.See related Grits posts: Recalling Texan origins of the Prison Rape Elimination Act Will PREA spur Texas to raise the age of criminal culpability Few states following Texas to defy prison rape regs PREA deadline passes: Perry tells Holder Texas won't comply More on Texas' PREA compliance Potential civil liability for failing to comply with Prison Rape Elimination Act Radio news questions Perry PREA stance… [read post]
2 May 2015, 10:36 am
This senate bill, which has already passed out of the House Corrections Committee, "requires TDCJ to identify organizations that provide reentry and reintegration resources guides and to collaborate with those organizations to make those resource guides available to all inmates. [read post]
26 Apr 2015, 9:24 am
TDCJ ad-seg cell interior. [read post]
25 Apr 2015, 2:52 pm
Juan Hinojosa's SB 1287 expanding licensing and regulation of forensic analysts through the Forensic Science Commission passed out of the senate, as did Senators Hinojosa's and Rodriguez's bill improving reentry resources provided to inmates leaving TDCJ. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 2:27 pm
SA4 seek innocence declarationSee coverage of the San Antonio Four's habeas writ seeking actual-innocence based exoneration.Reentry storiesNPR's John Burnett examined the circumstances surrounding the 21,000+ TDCJ inmates released from Huntsville every year. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 5:18 am
Presently, judges do not reply to TDCJ in more than half of cases and in others the decision comes to late to result in a meaningful reduction in the sentence. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 6:34 am
In April 2012, for example, it paid Helotes resident James Benke $75,000 “when TDCJ inmates improperly cut down trees on their property, and caused other trees to die from oak wilt. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm
The multidisciplinary team [MDT] reviews records of prisoners to determine who will be targeted for civil commitment.The bill specifies that the MDT will include a mental health professional from the Department of State Health Services; one victim services officer from TDCJ; one person from the sex offender rehabilitation program from TDCJ; a peace officer from Texas Department of Public Safety; two people from the Texas Civil Commitment Office; and a licensed sex offender… [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 8:44 am
At the Texas House Corrections Committee meeting this morning, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston said the House budget markup on prison healthcare gave the agency $85 million of the $174.8 million extra that they said in their Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) would be required to meet "minimum standards" in the coming biennium.This news raises several questions which remain unasked after this morning's session: Which standards will TDCJ fail to meet under the budget… [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 7:42 am
According to the Legislative Budget Board, this move would save the state nearly $100 million in the coming biennium and allow TDCJ to close multiple state jail facilities. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 6:13 am
If DPS isn't going to staff the extras in the capitol, maybe they should send them to TDCJ! [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 6:34 am
Basically, after the Fifth Circuit's ruling [see Grits coverage], TDCJ called for a settlement conference. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:13 am
TDCJ has already told them that these funding levels won't meet "minimum standards. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 4:00 pm
By comparison, the state executed ten people in 2014.In December, TDCJ spokesman Jason Clark sent Grits data regarding deaths in custody at TDCJ in recent years. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 6:35 am
Thanks to TDCJ and the park system, Walker County has a remarkable amount of its surface area apportioned toward tax-exempt uses. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 6:54 am
By comparison, the total 1995 population in Nueces County was 310,435, and 352,107 in 2013, or a 13.4 percent increase, while the jail population grew at a slightly greater rate - 16.8 percent.Looking more closely, though, the 1995 jail population figure is artificially inflated because the jail was full back then of convicted offenders awaiting transfer to TDCJ, an issue that's been largely resolved in the 21st century since the state-prison system tripled in size. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 4:31 am
In 1995, upward pressure on the jail population came more from detaining convicted felons awaiting transfer to TDCJ than felons awaiting trial; by 2015 that dynamic had flipped. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 8:54 am
In the near term, though, with fewer such jobs in the offing, Grits expects TDCJ's employment numbers to receive a positive boost.If that happens, there will likely be legislators suggesting the state de-prioritize TDCJ's proposed staff raises, which are aimed at enticing more employees to sign up as guards and to stay on the job once they've been trained and gotten a taste of working in a prison. [read post]
