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7 Mar 2013, 8:20 am
In all seriousness, there will likely be enough inmates walk out of TDCJ over this SNAFU that, by the time it's done, the Legislature could consider closing an additional prison unit. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 6:48 am
The Texas Criminal Justice Coalition issued a press release today in support of three bills establishing independent oversight and accountability for TDCJ's facilities and treatment of prisoners. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 1:00 pm
The best part: It would also allow defendants the real opportunity to live out their lives without a felony on their record.State jail felons have the highest revocation rates among inmates released from TDCJ, with defendants frequently choosing day for day time over treatment and other assessed needs placements. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 12:26 pm
The bill expands a program through which exonerees could purchase the same health insurance as TDCJ employees, but which has been underutilized because their spouses and dependents weren't also eligible.Only nine exonerees have enrolled in the program, Chairman John Smithee said when he laid out the bill on behalf of Rep. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 4:58 am
Riddle's bill would expand the prohibition to second and third degree felonies, forcing TDCJ to incarcerate those individuals longer. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 9:48 am
TDCJ chief Brad Livingston had told the subcommittee such an increase would bring the agency's healthcare budget back up to levels during the 2010-11 biennium. [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]
16 Feb 2013, 3:08 pm
Further, said Habern:I do not think the Legislature, the board or the division understands how those unresolved Parole-Board/TDCJ internal disputes and jurisdictional questions trickle down to affect parolees and their families. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 8:20 am
First: The Legislative Budget Board predicts prison populations will creep back up in the next few years and TDCJ doesn't control prison population levels. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 6:42 am
While I agree the law must change, Huffman's suggested fix needlessly expands the already growing and increasingly expensive bubble of prisoners serving life and LWOP sentences at TDCJ, part of a trend of the Calfornication of Texas prison sentences.Make me philosopher king and I'd just eliminate capital charges for both 17-year olds and juveniles charged as adults and see them all charged under regular murder statutes. [read post]
6 Feb 2013, 8:41 am
So far, those reductions have not resulted in a lower prison population.Confoundingly, despite declining crime, the number of people entering TDCJ each year has remained remarkably stable (TDCJ annual statistical reports are available online only back to 2005; ditto for revocation data from TDCJ-CJAD).TDCJ Admissions by Source Prison admissions due to probation revocations remained fairly steady since 2005, declining by a scant 3%. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 9:28 am
Local officials in every county with taxpayers on the hook for a hospital are thinking the same thing.Grits' particular interest in possible Medicaid expansion lies in the expanded access to mental health care for probationers and parolees and possibly federal cost sharing for inpatient hospital care at TDCJ. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 7:52 am
Some crafty legislator looking to snap up funds for reentry, treatment or diversion programming at TDCJ might consider dedicating that small-but-significant pot of money. [read post]
1 Feb 2013, 6:22 am
., Senate Finance will consider the budgets of Department of Public Safety, TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the new Juvenile Justice Department, TABC, TCLEOSE, and will discuss a "Special Provision Relating to Public Safety and Criminal Justice Agencies." [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 6:47 am
Indirectly, as was done in 2007, the state can provide mostly financial incentives to counties to supervise more offenders on probation instead of sentencing them to TDCJ. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 5:59 am
Yes, IPOT sent 1,085 questionnaires to TDCJ prisoners convicted of arson, but only 173 returned them. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 4:48 am
TDCJ reported 13,504 felony technical revocations in 2005 compared to 12,034 in 2012. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 9:26 am
If the state agreed to pay for 100% of blue-warrant costs, would the counties in turn agree to pay the cost for the state to incarcerate everyone they send to TDCJ? [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 8:15 am
OTOH, Huntsville ISD has found its property tax revenue choked off because of vast tax-exempt TDCJ holdings in Walker County. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 11:16 am
Both budgets zeroed out TDCJ's line item for facilities maintenance, a suggestion that fails to pass the laugh test. [read post]
