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7 May 2012, 8:04 am
The Back Gate posed an interesting question to Texas prison staff and got some animated responses: "Is TDCJ violating your privacy rights by requiring you give them your Facebook password? [read post]
6 May 2012, 12:57 pm
After the Texas Legislature finished its budget cutting last year and the dust finally settled, a whopping 39% of Texas state employee reductions in the last year came from two agencies: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and the recently merged Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD).TDCJ lost 2,035 FTEs (full-time equivalent positions), and TJJD lost 816.5, according to a recent state auditor's report (pdf). [read post]
2 May 2012, 5:57 am
" TDCJ notes that seven additional executions are currently scheduled for 2012. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 7:31 am
TDCJ notes that five additional executions are currently scheduled for 2012. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 7:23 am
TDCJ notes that five additional executions are currently scheduled for 2012. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 9:00 am
According to TDCJ, five additional executions are currently scheduled, including one for May 2. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:10 am
According to TDCJ, the next Texas execution is sceduled for April 26. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:20 am
To support his claim, appellant pointed out the following facts to show that, as applied in his case, the prison chapel trial violated his constitutional rights: The prison is protected by double razor fences, locked metal doors, and high-security procedures; Only people listed on an inmate-defendant's approved visitor list could enter the branch courthouse to attend proceedings (only 10 names can appear on that list and the names can only be modified once every 6 months); Media and other… [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 8:55 am
[TDCJ spokesman Jason] Clark said Texas prison employees last year seized 904 cellphones in prisons or headed there, down from 1,480 three years ago. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 7:18 pm
In the pretrial hearing, the TDCJ publication, Offender Rules and Regulations for Visitation, was offered into evidence and witnesses were called. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 9:44 am
According to TDCJ, the next Texas execution is sceduled for April 26. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 1:02 pm
TDCJ's victim-offender mediation program was the first of its kind in the nation. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
Notable recent posts include: TDCJ Continues Push for Privacy Nebraska Editorial on State's Search for Drugs Additional Coverage of Beaty v. [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 9:27 am
Today's Houston Chronicle reports, "TDCJ wants to block release of lethal injection drug info. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 3:56 am
There's an interesting article in the Huntsville Item ("HISD looks at ways to reduce expenses," April 2) with a reference to the impact of TDCJ's ownership of vast swaths of property in Walker County on the local school district's tax base:Because a large portion of land in Walker County is owned by the state through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or Sam Houston State University, Huntsville schools have a hard time raising tax dollars from the community… [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]
2 Apr 2012, 9:19 am
" At one point, Whitmire said "most" of the 12,000 women locked up in TDCJ probably don't need to be there.PBS also interviewed outgoing House Corrections Chairman Jerry Madden who recalled how, when he was named Chairman in 2005, House Speaker Tom Craddick called him in and said eight words to him that "changed my life": They were, "Don't build new prisons, they cost too much. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 7:52 am
The Lege on paper reduced the budget for prison healthcare last year by around $100 million over the biennium, then TDCJ almost immediately began paying $5 million per month extra while they renegotiated healthcare services, an amount greater than the Lege had cut. [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 5:40 am
A former TDCJ general counsel, Reynolds represents a small mountain of institutional memory on obscure criminal justice topics exiting the premises that few other Texans can replicate.Carl will still be around, I'm sure. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 8:23 am
" Earlier coverage of TDCJ's war of words with Reprieve begins at the link. [read post]
