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6 Dec 2011, 6:40 am
As Grits wrote yesterday, the only real way to reduce costs at TDCJ is to change policies to incarcerate fewer people. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 4:56 am
I don't necessarily believe TDCJ is prepared to take over prisoner healthcare, either from a financial nor a management perspective. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:23 pm
Here are a few odds and ends that deserve readers' attention:From the Baker Institute at Rice: Drug Treatment Gaps in Harris County, TexasTexas Tribune: Federal judge aims to get to the bottom of TDCJ heat-litigation liesDallas Observer: Sending social workers to mental-health 911 calls reduces emergency room stays. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 6:13 am
I noticed several recent articles about the use of prisoner labor (both from TDCJ and local jails) to do free work for municipalities, a policy that sounds good on its face but in practice is a two-edged sword, with added security concerns, staffing requirements, a greater risk of escape, and potential displacement of free world workers. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 12:58 am
In any event, HIV is a big medical cost driver for TDCJ. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 1:38 am
But as someone who began working at TDCJ when he was 20 and was promoted through the ranks, he's not the kind of guy you hire to reform anything. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 12:54 pm
The UT Board of Regents approved a 30-day extension of UTMB's contract with the Department of Criminal Justice to provide prison healthcare, but vowed to end the contract after December if the state can't come up with roughly $100 million more than was budgeted by the Lege this spring, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 9:13 am
At the Dallas News, Lauren McGaughy has a story that reaches to the heart of problems at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, even if it's an aspect of the crisis state officials have been loathe to address: Low pay and poor working conditions, exacerbated by siting youth prisons in rural areas with limited labor pools, contribute to a nearly unmanageable situation where up to 40 percent of staff turn over every year.Now, Texas adult prisons have increased starting pay to stave off their own… [read post]
30 May 2008, 12:59 am
With gas at $4 per gallon, the idea of releasing Texas prisoners from their own facilities or "regional release centers" instead of driving them all back to Huntsville is picking up steam, reports the Austin Statesman ("Texas considers regional prison release plan," May 30):For years, most Texas prisoners have been taken to Huntsville when they complete their sentences before being discharged. [read post]
29 Aug 2013, 3:36 pm
You might not think prison guards and inmates have much in common, but on the question of too-hot prisons they've found a mutual interest. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 8:00 am
A Texas inmate is suing the state corrections department, claiming officials refused to treat a flesh-eating bacterial infection. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 1:36 pm
In any event it's certainly an allegation that he and others at TDCJ covered up a sex scandal - allegations that TDCJ answered with a cash payment instead of a public defense in court. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 3:26 pm
TDCJ On-hand:Violent: 10,396 upProperty: 4,643 downDrug: 5,679 downOther: 1,299 upReductions achieved in property and drug offender totals were nearly entirely offset by the increased number of violent offenders, who as of Aug. 31, 2014 made up 55.6 percent of TDCJ's population totals. [read post]
1 Jun 2014, 5:19 am
That comes to between $110 to $240 million per biennium compared to roughly a billion-dollar TDCJ healthcare budget. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 4:36 pm
If you have a loved one in the Texas Prison System, learn more at our TDCJ Inmate Search page. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 6:20 am
TDCJ must transport them to a state facility within 45 days (usually less). [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 9:55 am
Every TDCJ inmate—even those who aren't sick enough to be sent to Jester IV—has blood drawn as part of the intake process. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 10:16 am
TDCJ cannot credibly cut 5% from its budget without policy changes in addition to tweaking appropriations. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 3:56 am
There's an interesting article in the Huntsville Item ("HISD looks at ways to reduce expenses," April 2) with a reference to the impact of TDCJ's ownership of vast swaths of property in Walker County on the local school district's tax base:Because a large portion of land in Walker County is owned by the state through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or Sam Houston State University, Huntsville schools have a hard time raising tax dollars from the community… [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 8:30 am
After serving as TDCJ's public spokesman for Texas' death penalty system for eight years, Larry Fitzgerald switched sides, earning him the label "traitor" from some of his former colleagues along with a new career as an expert witness. [read post]
