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24 Mar 2010, 12:06 pm
In addition to Owens, Pamela Baggett is Senior Warden at the Holliday Unit, and David Standlee and Riley Tilley are current and former TDCJ employees, respectively.RELATED(?) [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 3:06 pm
Instead, they've proposed cuts to diversion programming and staff that will set the agency up to fail.The Legislature should demand similar information from TDCJ to help them trim its budget instead of leaving it up to the agency to decide what to cut. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 5:26 am
In the wake of a recent audit alleging that the University of Texas Medical Branch overcharged for prison health services, I was interested to note that both the House and Senate budgets would university medical providers to get written permission from LBB to charge TDCJ more for services than would be allowable under Medicaid.Rider 58 in the proposed Senate budget (large pdf, p. 599) declares that TDCJ "shall not pay rates to health care providers for hospital services… [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 1:50 pm
According to TDCJ, 12 more executions are scheduled through October; more execution dates are likely to be added for 2008. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 8:58 am
A TDCJ chaplain admitted to smuggling letters out of death row on behalf of inmates, possibly including one that containing a veiled against a member of state Sen. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 3:23 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:56 am
Reported the SA Express-News ("Inmate cooks give back at food bank," Feb. 5): Most employers are turned off by ex-convict applicants, [TDCJ laundry, food and supply director Tony D'Cunha] said, but hiring from this program has been “exceptional. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 2:48 am
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 12:36 am
Samuel Davis, head of the Corrections Association of Texas, telling why the Senate and TDCJ should spend more money to staff current prisons instead of building new ones:Regular readers know the money for prisons in the Senate's proposed budget was taken from the Texas School for the Blind - see another short video posted on YouTube by an ex-offender/activist satirizing the idea that new prisons take money from blind kids. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 1:18 pm
A small Intermediate Sanctions Facility housed at the Liberty County Jail will close in September thanks to budget cutbacks at TDCJ, emphasizing the reality that a) few real cuts were made at the agency and b) those cuts the Lege did adopt reduced funding for probation and diversion programs. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 8:25 am
That's the title of a Q and A with Carroll Pickett, the retired TDCJ Chaplain featured in the documentary At the Death House Door. [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 1:44 pm
More than 10,000 fewer inmates in TDCJ is why the Legislature could close eight prison units over these last few years. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 11:28 am
This news means TDCJ can likely close multiple, additional units to save money instead. [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]
25 May 2014, 10:41 am
There's a good chance the hottest Texas prisons won't be far behind.See related Grits posts:Report: 'Deadly heat in Texas prisons'Union rep: TDCJ focuses on pigs' comfort over staff, inmatesClimate-controlled hogs' barn spurred union participation in prisoner heat suitTDCJ guard union joins inmate litigation over excessive heatSaving TDCJ's bacon: Cool pigs vs. overheated inmatesTDCJ's pigs to get air conditioning but not prisonersMore… [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 12:42 am
John Whitmire, TDCJ Inspector General John Moriarty, and others regarding a proposed bill by Sen. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 7:33 am
Every biennium, they must start by writing a nine-figure check to cover un-funded costs in TDCJ's healthcare budget. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 10:36 am
In a lot of ways, TDCJ has promulgated a stupid policy. [read post]
15 Mar 2014, 12:34 pm
These “offenders,” as TDCJ calls them, typically don’t know the deceased, unless the person died at the Walls Unit. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:32 am
And maybe also, just for cruelty's sake.BONUS: Check out [Cotton Picking Time in] Tulia, TX, a tune about TDCJ field workers written by my pal Jeff Frazier back in the day and sung by the great Malford Milligan. [read post]
