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24 Aug 2007, 12:12 pm
., featuring local author Bill Crawford and former TDCJ spokesman Larry Fitzgerald. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Austin Statesman's Eric Dexheimer has an item about an ex-TDCJ prisoner who was trained while in prison as a barber on the taxpayers dime but was then turned down for licensing ("State government giveth, then taketh away," June 6). [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 9:24 am
., featuring local author Bill Crawford and former TDCJ spokesman Larry Fitzgerald. [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 2:41 am
Imagine you're a female prison guard with 13 years on the job. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 7:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
According to TDCJ's annual statistical report, as of Aug. 31, 2015, about 20.3 percent of TDCJ inmates were 50 years old or older. [read post]
4 May 2008, 2:29 pm
  It's datelined from Huntsville, Texas, home of TDCJ's Walls Unit and the state's execution chamber. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 4:19 am
  TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions.The Houston Chronicle has this report on the execution of George Whitaker. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Might universities cease providing health care in the Texas prison system, reverting to TDCJ-employed doctors at the agency's 85 in-prison health clinics? [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 5:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
IMO that's intentional: TDCJ has prioritized prisons over all its other functions and prefers to close none of them, so they've suggested cuts that set the agency up to fail. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 11:06 am
I was a little surprised at these numbers since TDCJ chief Brad Livingston told the Legislature this spring that most of the beds were already contracted.Notably, the TTC beds are the only ones now on their second RFP. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 8:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The SA Express News over the weekend reported on the case of Randall Church, who says he committed arson soon after being released from TDCJ because he couldn't handle life in the free world and wanted to go back to prison. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 7:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But in Texas, 16.9% of state employees are in corrections, and that's with TDCJ more than 1,000 guards short of full staffing! [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 1:02 am
Moore wants to examine understaffing issues at Texas adult AND juvenile prison systems - at TDCJ and TYC, in other words - and the consequences of failing to adequately staff those facilities. [read post]
10 Nov 2019, 8:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Federal District Judge Keith Ellison still wants to know who at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) lied to him, and unlike Grits or Keri Blakinger or prisoner families, he has the authority and the tools to find out! [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 7:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Currently average time in county is 28 days before heading to TDCJ after an inmate is paper ready, says LBB. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 10:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
According to TDCJ spokesman Robert Hurst, the average cost of housing Texas inmates is about $20,000 a year, but medical and end-of-life expenses hike that figure to some $30,000 for elderly inmates. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 7:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
26 Feb 2015, 8:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At the Texas House Corrections Committee meeting this morning, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston said the House budget markup on prison healthcare gave the agency $85 million of the $174.8 million extra that they said in their Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) would be required to meet "minimum standards" in the coming biennium.This news raises several questions which remain unasked after this morning's session: Which standards will TDCJ fail to meet under the budget… [read post]