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5 May 2008, 11:15 am
Texas won't reach that clip anytime soon, but the execution dates are being set so rapidly right now TDCJ hasn't had time yet to update its website.CrimProf blog cites a New York Times article reporting that five Texans have received execution dates between June 3 (Derrick Sonnier) and August 20 (Denard Manns). [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 7:41 am
TDCJ is finding it more difficult than you might imagine to give away money. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 7:33 am
Foster is now in the general population at TDCJ and closer to his family members in San Antonio. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 5:54 pm
Charles Hood's case came to a near-boil in June when his June 17 scheduled execution was halted because the death warrant expired before TDCJ could carry out the lethal injunction. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 8:57 am
Just a few bits of telling data about Texas' criminal justice system compiled from prior Grits posts:Proportion of Texas adults under control of the criminal justice system (in prison, jail, on probation or on parole): 1 in 21Increase in Texas' overall population 1978-2004: 67%Increase in Texas' prison population 1978-2004: 573%Number of felonies on the books in Texas: 2,324Number of Texas felonies involving oysters: 11Percentage of TDCJ inmates convicted of drug offenses:… [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 9:07 am
The Geography of IncarcerationWhich Texas zip codes generate the most TDCJ prisoners? [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 1:24 pm
Were I assigned that task, here's where I'd start:Texas Justice Initiative has data on police shootings and deaths in custody, including prisons and jails.TCJC's criminal court database for Bexar, Harris, and Dallas counties lets you do racial break outs by arresting agency, offense category, and average bail amounts for those three jurisdictions.For data on prisons, probation, and parole, here's the 2018 TDCJ annual statistical report.Texas death… [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 May 2018, 1:59 pm
So probation revocations accounted for about 40 percent of drug offenders entering TDCJ last year. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 5:21 pm
See additional, related polling here, here, here, and here.Police unions and police misconduct: what the research says.As cities grew safer, police budgets continued to rise.Former police chief explains why it's so hard to fire bad cops.Police chiefs finding job security hard to come by.Confessions of a former bastard cop.Study: 1 in 1,000 black men in America will be killed by police over life course.Protests focus on overpolicing, but underpolicing is also dangerous.Cops prevent violence but… [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]
23 Jun 2018, 8:37 am
TDCJ has dismissed around 500 disciplinary cases that officers filed against inmates under these quota systems, and it's a safe bet there are more among them which were fabricated but will now never be adjudicated.It's the thought of those never-to-be-unearthed, fabricated cases that's caused the chorus from the Old Crow Medicine Show to bounce around Grits' head all morning: "How does the warden sleep at night, after the long day's through? [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 7:51 am
And this court has previously indicated that TDCJ policies regarding storage of personal property do not infringe on a prisoner’s right to free exercise of religion....Bynum’s confiscation of DeMarco’s religious materials was reasonably related to a legitimate penological objective.... [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:00 am
But this year's declines aren't the only un-anticipated decrease at play.In recent years, the Texas Legislative Budget Board's projections for TDCJ's population have been consistently overstated. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 8:43 am
That's mainly because county jails for several months stopped sending new inmates to TDCJ, says Blakinger, but they started taking them again in June. [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 5:59 am
"Of course, a cynic might note that there's no such new facility in TDCJ's budget request, which is focused more on where to make cuts mandated by legislative leadership. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 10:17 am
From the Houston Chronicle:Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the current system reveals communication gaps between TDCJ and local law enforcement. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 11:23 am
HB 659 would require TDCJ to count and report the number of prison inmates with children "of any age. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 4:23 am
This raises the questions: How much will TDCJ ask the Lege for air conditioning? [read post]
29 Dec 2018, 7:07 am
Her story on TDCJ denying dentures to toothless, elderly inmates ended with an amazing outcome: The agency agreed to change its policy and began delivering 3D-printed dentures to inmates by this fall. [read post]
