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20 Oct 2006, 1:21 am
[JURIST] Michael Dewayne Johnson [backgrounder; TDCJ offender profile], a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 9:57 am
2011 Budget Blues: Close prison units to cut TDCJ budget 2.5%Data on TDCJ unit age and costStates slashing spending costs, closing unitsSome states actually shutting down prison unitsEmptying prisons makes Wired magazine's 'Smart List' [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm
Presently, the Sunset Advisory Commission has begun its review of TDCJ and other criminal justice-related agencies, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. [read post]
3 May 2011, 7:08 am
And whatever the sum required, it's not being incorporated into TDCJ's budget. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:31 am
Some of TDCJ's recent escapes have involved transportation scenarios, so it's not an area where you want to skimp on security. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 1:30 pm
As mentioned earlier, 48% of TDCJ's pharmacy costs go for inmates with HIV. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 4:56 pm
Mike Ward at the Statesman has more coverage of the recent TDCJ Sunset hearing, though IMO he overstates the chance that the parole board's authority will be substantially expanded. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 7:43 am
Perhaps someday federal communications law on the subject will change, though for now the cell phone companies oppose it and they have a lot more clout with Congress than TDCJ. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 7:30 am
These are policy decisions so they weren't suggested by TDCJ in its recent Legislative Appropriations Request. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 9:18 am
I mentioned in the last post that local political interests wanted to close the Central Unit in Sugarland, but neglected to add that the Dawson State Jail in downtown Dallas similarly stands in the way of development the city would like to promote along the Trinity River. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 3:34 pm
The group Texas IMPACT put snippets of video on their website of some of the reform-minded testimony at this week's Sunset Commission hearing focused on the Department of Criminal Justice, (discussed on Grits here) for those who didn't get to attend.Go here to see the full, unexpurgated hours-long June 5 hearing, for those who'd like to watch the whole thing online. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 10:53 pm
Yesterday the Texas capitol was filled with grey-uniformed Texas prison guards there for a lobby day sponsored by AFSCME advocating for the 20% raise proposed by the Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 2:14 am
After Governor Perry vetoed legislation to relieve jail overcrowding by allowing bail for certain parolees held in the county jail on technical violations, now some Sheriffs may just take matters into their own hands ("Jail to limit parolees," SA Express News, Aug. 4): Atascosa County Sheriff Tommy Williams recently began instructing deputies to turn away parolees arrested solely on so-called "blue warrants," for technical violations such as failing to report to a parole officer… [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 5:42 am
Once new rules are in place, Texas inmates will again be allowed to marry while they're incarcerated, but this time they'll do so in person, not via proxy as in the past. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 10:43 am
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere:TDCJ is ending the use of solitary confinement as punishment, and the number of people in ad-seg overall continues to drop precipitously. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 7:45 am
"TDCJ Will End Final Feasts Before Executions," by Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 7:13 am
To women such as Cooper, they're a heart-lifting chance to give back to society.Former TDCJ board chair Christina Crain deserves credit for bringing the program to TDCJ:[Lori] Stevens, 52, who has trained dogs for more than two decades, launched Patriot Paws in an effort to help Dallas-area disabled vets. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 10:30 am
"The other verboten passage made an historical reference to race riots in the US after Jack Johnson became the first black man to win the heavyweight boxing title.I wonder what other titles have been denied by TDCJ on such flimsy grounds? [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 5:10 am
Guess where TDCJ OIG will be this holiday season. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 1:15 pm
This encourages providers to resolve even the most valid and pressing inmate grievances in favor of TDCJ rather than in favor of the inmate. [read post]
