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17 Feb 2014, 5:52 am
“TDCJ is committed to doing all it can to recruit and retain correctional officers. [read post]
12 Jan 2014, 8:42 am
“Do TDCJ facilities create high HIV rates by releasing prisoners (known to have high HIV rates) into the community or do TDCJ facilities locate in areas with high HIV rates? [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am
This issue appears primed to blow up in TDCJ's face in 2014.10. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 8:29 am
From the research I've seen, yoga and meditation have positive effects on in-prison behavior and recidivism, so limiting participation by one's declared religion to me seems like a counterproductive choice by TDCJ. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 4:15 am
Instead, those documents were shredded as part of a policy change inside TDCJ. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 6:22 am
The Geo Group is to TDCJ as the mercenary firm Blackwater was to the US Marines. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 9:40 am
More than 15 percent of the inmate population has been found to have a mental illness, and some of them refuse to take their psychotropic medications in the summer, because the drugs can make them heat intolerant, leading to assaults on other inmates and correctional officers.Regular readers may recall that this blog broke the story of TDCJ's pigs getting air conditioning while prisoners and COs sweated through the summer. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 12:35 pm
None wanted to be quoted, citing a fear of job reprisals," Ward reported.Perhaps it's true, as TDCJ insists, the raises were "necessary to retain top talent." [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:49 pm
(The number of drug offenders in state jail is higher than full-blown prison: 33% compared to 14.8%; the 16.7% figure includes both.)The proportion of Texas inmates incarcerated for property/fraud/theft offenses is more than double that in the federal system - 16.1 Only 1.8% of Texas prisoners are incarcerated for weapons offenses, compared to 15% for the feds.The average sentence length of inmates on hand in TDCJ in 2012 was higher than the feds - 19.3 years compared to 9.5 years. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 3:55 am
An announcement of a TDCJ jobs fair in Polk County included this tidbit:Approximately 130 correctional officer positions are available to be filled at the Polunsky Unit, a maximum security prison located in Livingston. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 5:17 pm
Gonzalez opened the conversation last month with a letter to a TDCJ Chief Financial Officer Jerry McGinty. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 7:19 am
Though the article didn't mention Grits, a Wall Street Journal report today ("Extreme heat tests prisons") credited a meme first articulated on this blog - that TDCJ is constructing climate-controlled facilities for its hogs while most prison units are left to bake in the summer sun - with the unprecedented decision of the state's leading prison-guard union to support an inmate lawsuit over excessive heat and oppressive working/living conditions.Union officials said corrections officers… [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 6:11 am
Hurt and asked him why he left TDCJ. [read post]
12 Oct 2013, 7:14 am
Regrettably, I've little doubt that's the message received by remaining TDCJ employees. [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 5:54 am
Here in Texas, TDCJ considered but rejected similar plans back in the 1980s. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 7:35 am
From the data therein on "paper ready" inmates awaiting transfer to TDCJ, Grits created this chart:So, there's been a slight, recent uptick. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 3:36 pm
Apparently the pharmacist didn't understand the Texas Public Information Act and TDCJ didn't fully explain it to him; these revelations were as predictable as the sunrise. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 3:26 am
(“Chance”) is a prisoner currently incarcerated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”). [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 10:33 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward last month had a story regarding difficulties moving from training new ministers to actually having them perform ministers' duties at various TDCJ units. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am
Counting only those in prisons and state jails TDCJ has reported steady annual decreases for several years that allowed the state to close three prison units. [read post]
