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5 Aug 2007, 4:16 am
TDCJ office of inspector general staff (TDCJ internal affairs) has now been designated as the investigative arm of the TYC now, and has even offered up one of it's own to head that agencies top law officer post. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am
And while inmates can appeal a ruling by requesting a review from a TDCJ committee, Medlock said 87 percent of appeals are denied. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 11:31 am
" Collectively they account for more than 40% of TDCJ pharmaceutical costs. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 11:13 pm
Trustees routinely perform functions previously reserved for TDCJ employees. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 3:28 pm
Relatedly, I wonder if the same deference would be granted when some Muslim sheikhs from Saudi Arabia or Pakistan show up and want to start a madrasah in TDCJ at no "cost to the taxpayer. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 5:43 am
Rather, it's more probable that TDCJ just stopped labeling deaths as heat-related after litigation began in 2012. [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 7:32 am
A teacher at a TDCJ prison blames chronic understaffing for the circumstances that led to her rape. [read post]
28 Jan 2019, 5:38 am
Reduce the number of prisoners, reduce medical expenses.Maintenance costs rising: TDCJ has asked for $146 million in new maintenance spending this biennium. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 6:46 am
No one was more shocked than me when he was convicted of a string of armed robberies and sent to TDCJ. [read post]
9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm
Since then, the number of executions have declined, while the annual number of suicides in TDCJ has hovered in the low 30s. [read post]
4 Apr 2018, 6:46 am
Overall, state general revenue funds pay for only 24 percent of Medicaid expenditures on substance abuse, but more than 98 percent of treatment funds at TDCJ.With a total incarcerated population of 145,399, TDCJ has 10,047 incarceration beds dedicated to substance abuse, and the parole system has 7,592 people on specialized substance abuse caseloads.There are another 2,897 secure treatment beds used by the probation system, TDCJ reported.Source: Meadows FoundationThe Meadows… [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 5:23 am
Employees who violate TDCJ sexual abuse policies, federal or state law are subject to disciplinary penalties, including criminal prosecution, he said. [read post]
31 May 2013, 7:16 am
For example, the Lege reduced TDCJ's budget precisely by the amount it cost to run those two units! [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]
24 Jun 2019, 2:40 pm
They have state-specific pages for each jurisdiction; here's the one for Texas.By their calculations, 47 percent of people entering Texas prisons in 2017 were revoked either from probation or parole - 36 percent from probation, 11 percent from parole.My first thought was to double-check their math, so here's my calculations using verifiable, public sourcing.In Texas, according to an annual TDCJ report to the legislature, probation revocations to prison in FY 2017 totaled 23,101;… [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 10:22 am
TDCJ’s turnover rate was 19.2 percent in fiscal year 2011. [read post]
17 May 2010, 6:26 am
Blue Bell Creameries alone sold TDCJ $2.9 million worth of wholesale product.Stiles said TDCJ inmates spent $94.9 million on commissary fare in FY 2009. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 8:09 am
In the Dallas News, Christy Hoppe has a story voicing concern that next year's budget cuts at TDCJ could wipe out already sparse treatment funding for DWI offenders, reacting to a terrible case where a repeat drunk driver plowed drunkenly into a family from Lewisville, killing a mother and daughter ("Prison budget cuts threaten treatment programs for repeat DWI offenders," April 7):Most drunken drivers like John Patrick Barton mark time in the Texas prison system without… [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 10:17 am
Earlier today I published data from a TDCJ-CJAD (adult probation) report (pdf) in December, citing the results from several counties that received state grants aimed at reducing probation revocations. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 8:32 am
The Austin Statesman's Chuck Lindell reports ("Inmate challenges pedophilia test as junk science," March 2) on a legal challenge by TDCJ inmate Michael Arena - who was convicted of sexually assaulting two young cousins when he was a teenager - to use of a particularly insidious brand of junk science aimed at sex offenders called the Abel Assessment, which is based on similar principles to the penile plethysmograph. [read post]
