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26 Jan 2012, 12:50 pm
In Texas, the cost is $21,390 a year per convict.See the full report, The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers, here.Factors outside of TDCJ's budget included employee benefits and taxes, underfunded pension benefits and retiree health contributions, retirement costs, judgments and claims, and statewide administrative costs. [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]
12 Nov 2008, 10:46 am
Ana Correa from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition points out another good re-entry related bill authored by last session's House Appropriations Vice-Chairman Ryan Guillen, HB 70, described thusly in a TDCJ fact sheet she sent me (not online):Returning offenders need gainful employment in order to reintegrate and take personal responsibility.Texas has 168 state laws that forbid felons from obtaining jobs. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 5:17 pm
Hi everyone, it’s Ana, hope you’re all having a great day.I received a notice today that an important report has been posted on TDCJ’s website. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 6:57 am
So the TDCJ really needs to be taken into court for this one.Mandy Marzullo: Has TDCJ been sued previously for deviating from the standard care? [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 4:00 am
One of the senior TDCJ transplants at the Texas Youth Commission and a close ally of executive director Dimitria Pope will leave soon, having barely been at the agency long enough to get her feet wet. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 10:12 am
TDCJ/UTMB, et. al., have told the Lege what it will cost to provide care to prisoners but even the more generous Senate version of the budget is $55 million shy of the requested amount. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 7:33 am
Looking at the most recent (2016) TDCJ Statistical Report, as of August 31, 2016, there were only 51 youths under age 18 housed in TDCJ (see p. 18 of the pdf; p. 8 of the document). [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:34 am
"TDCJ spokesman Jeremy Desel told The Appeal that in 2018, "there were 52 alleged incidents of sexual assault and 47 alleged incidents of improper sexual activity with persons in custody by TDCJ staff; one report in each category came from Stiles. [read post]
30 May 2018, 2:46 pm
TDCJ officials, however, say that sort of workplace environment is a thing of the past. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm
More background here.Most TDCJ volunteers are faith basedReported the Conroe Courier, discussing a bill by rookie state Rep. [read post]
30 May 2015, 10:50 am
General Revenue Funds are increased by $458.4 million for the 2016–17 biennium and include $188.0 million for an 8.0 percent pay increase for TDCJ correctional and parole officers, and a $139.4 million increase for Correctional Managed Health Care. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:45 am
TDCJ officials are disputing the finding, demonstrating how they intervene to curate causes-of-death in the wake of federal heat litigation.Failing state jailsTexas state jail system is widely regarded as a failed experiment, reported the Texas Tribune's Catherine Marfin. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:30 am
TDCJ's Community Justice Assistance Division chief Cary Welebob mentioned a document Grits hadn't seen from the Office of Court Administration - a Study of the Necessities of Certain Court Costs and Fees in Texas - during her testimony this morning before the House Corrections and Criminal Jurisprudence Committees. [read post]
9 May 2018, 7:36 am
.* While 2017 data is out for Texas courts, we haven't seen data more recently than FY 2016 (which ended 21 months ago) on either arrests (DPS) or prison/parole/probation systems (TDCJ). [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 4:00 am
Lozano’s second RLUIPA claim, alleges that the TDCJ defendants burdened his religious liberty by denying him a private cell to pray..... [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm
In 2013, with projected budget shortfalls even greater than those faced by the state this spring, TDCJ may finally have to make such hard choices, which were for the most part kicked down the road like an old tin can in the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 12:56 pm
As you would expect, Scott Henson has the latest on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice including a coming big change in prisoners' access to telephones and a shortage of doctors for the prison system. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 10:02 am
I went straight to TDCJ for 5 years. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:13 am
Hearing recently of his death, a man who says he's the real rapist came forward (he's currently doing 99 years in TDCJ already) and is requesting DNA testing to clear the dead man's name. [read post]
