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18 Jan 2015, 7:11 am
The Texas House Corrections Committee this week put out its interim report (pdf) covering the following topics:Oversight of TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and TJJDReview of mental health services in the justice systemEvaluate 'pay for performance' model for privatizing juvenile justiceSchool discipline and the criminal justice systemThere's a decent overview of operations of monitored agencies, including a good discussion of administrative segregation (solitary… [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 5:39 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]
23 Dec 2014, 2:56 pm
The TDCJ Office of the Inspector General completes a custodial death report form for each death in TDCJ, with the exception of executions, and sends the completed form to the Office of the Attorney General. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 8:27 am
Some at TDCJ were old men who died at the end of long sentences. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 3:04 pm
But the TDCJ followed the law and rejected the date. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 12:05 pm
But TDCJ brass has suggested no such alternative. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 7:30 am
At those rates, it would run around $2 billion (with a "b") to treat every TDCJ prisoner with Hepatitis C if, say, courts ever ruled the state is obligated to provide the treatment as part of its basic standard of care for the disease. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 8:41 am
If it'd been spent on some combination of diversion programming and improved guard pay, maybe TDCJ wouldn't face the understaffing crisis that presently besets it.The border surge was for the most part a policy decision made outside the legislative process by a handful of state officials who are now exiting public service. [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]
15 Nov 2014, 10:51 am
Every year Texas releases almost twice as many prisoners as TDCJ housed en toto when Ann Richards was in office. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 7:19 am
Sombody files this every year, but it's hard to see it going anywhere while the litigation at TDCJ over excessive heat is still pending - if those court rulings go against the state they'd just be doubling down on their troubles by passing this.Don't remove statute of limitations in non-DNA rape casesSeveral bills filed, all by Democrats, to remove the statute of limitations for rape in non-DNA cases is a terrible idea that will result in false convictions. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 11:10 am
University providers are encountering significant difficulties in the ability to recruit and retain the professional staff necessary to provide care at TDCJ correctional facilities. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 8:25 am
TDCJ contracts with 140 hospitals besides UTMB, the committee was told. [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 4:05 pm
TDCJ-Inst. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 7:53 am
Perry's decision that Texas will not comply with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, a lawsuit by a transgendered TDCJ inmate alleging the state failed to protect her from sexual assault potentially takes on added import. [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 4:45 am
" TDCJ spokesflak Jason Clark understatedly told the paper, “It’s certainly a unique situation where you have differing causes of death between two medical examiners. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 10:53 am
Lowe’s client hired him, he was contemplating spending the next 20 years of his life in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) and serving out a lifetime sex offender registration thereafter. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 7:24 am
Long-time Texas parole attorney Bill Habern, whose comments on the Patricia Freeman case Grits appended to this post, followed up with an email pointing out an aspect of the parole process that deserves readers' attention:One of the big problems with the Board is that 97% of everyone in TDCJ is there by plea bargain. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 11:53 am
" He's now serving a three-year sentence in TDCJ for the assault with credit for time served.One wonders if Goodwin's treatment, rather than reflecting general problems at the jail, resulted from retaliation by the guards and supervisors for assaulting a jailer? [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 8:53 am
“But even now, TDCJ is refusing totake basic steps to protect inmates. [read post]
