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12 Sep 2013, 8:22 am
Looking at TDCJ's 2012 Statistical Report (p. 16 of the pdf), as of Aug. 31 of last year, one notices that about 14% (57,478) of the more than 400,000 probationers statewide were categorized as "absconders." [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:13 am
TDCJ has already told them that these funding levels won't meet "minimum standards. [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]
5 Oct 2015, 8:17 am
Grits compiled these data* from TDCJ Annual Statistical Reports (available here):Prisoners in TDCJ Sentenced to Life Without Parole2014: 6832013: 5812012: 4852011: 3822010: 2902009: 2032008: 1212007: 492006: 4*Total at the end of each fiscal year, 2015 not yet posted [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 7:15 am
TDCJ's Stringfellow Unit, photo via AP. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 4:00 am
He explained:this appeal involves the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s (“TDCJ”) efforts to accommodate the religious practice of keeping kosher of roughly 900 Jewish prisoners among an inmate population greater than 140,000; TDCJ’s establishment of a “Jewish prison unit” with a kosher kitchen; a single Jewish prisoner, Moussazadeh, whose demands were thus accommodated, even though they were not required to be by any court decision; major… [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 12:11 pm
The House budget matched the Senate's inclusion of $105.2 million for TDCJ correctional officers salary increases of 5 percent, but failed to pay for them with prison closures the way they did on the Senate side.. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 3:57 am
This news could bump the Pack Unit up on the list of the most likely next TDCJ units the Legislature may consider closing. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 8:59 am
HIV/AIDS is the number one killer of Texas prison inmates, and TDCJ spends about half its pharmacy budget on HIV medications, but many ex-prisoners don't keep taking the drugs once they get out, according to a new study from UTMB. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 3:17 am
The Houston Chronicle yesterday had a nice little article about TDCJ's Texas Correctional Industries program training inmates to perform computer repair, which unlike picking cotton or working on a hoe squad actually teach prisoners a skill that's marketable when they get out. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 12:52 am
Smith did 19 years and 11 months in TDCJ for a rape that he did not commit.What is a constable? [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 7:16 am
Having recently discussed the Texas parole board's failure to act on 90% of medical releases recommended by TDCJ, I was interested to see via Doc Berman that the Vera Institute just published a new study titled, "Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release" (pdf), which includes a discussion of Texas' program.According to the Vera Institute, "In the years following its creation [in 1991], few elderly inmates were released. [read post]
15 Jul 2008, 5:34 pm
A recent state senate hearing admonished a clearly shaken TDCJ executive director over the unit's stats, that at the time were 46 so far this year. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:35 pm
So I wanted to pull out a segment from our most recent Reasonably Suspicious podcast discussing the topic in more detail:Allegations by attorneys in the report that TDCJ interfered to prevent deployment of particular legal strategies should be investigated by the state bar or perhaps a legislative oversight committee, at a minimum. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:34 am
It's possible shuttered TDCJ units could end up doing federal immigrant detention, but many other empty jail facilities owned by counties will be competing for those beds, too. [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]
16 Jun 2020, 4:00 am
The court said in part:Gutierrez fails to make a strong showing of a likelihood of success in establishing that TDCJ’s execution policy is not “reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:35 am
An article by Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman today ("Cell phones hard to find on death row," Nov. 23) makes me fear Texas prison administrators haven't learned the right lessons from the recent rash of contraband discoveries (particularly cell phones) on death row:"A year ago, we were amazed to find an inmate with both a cell phone and a charger up there," John Moriarty, the state prison system's inspector general, said Thursday. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 4:42 am
Now construction is complete, but TDCJ doesn't need the extra capacity and is under pressure to reduce spending instead of enter new contracts. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 12:21 pm
Via the state prosecutors' association:The Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Community Justice Assistance Division (TDCJ-CJAD) authorized the publication of the Texas Progressive Interventions and Sanctions Bench Manual in response to requests from the Texas trial judiciary concerning community corrections sanctioning options and resources in Texas. [read post]
