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16 Feb 2012, 8:56 am
The Huntsville Item reports, "TDCJ has enough drugs to carry out executions in 2012," by Cody Stark. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 1:58 pm
TDCJ entered a contract with a Huntsville hospital for certain prisoner care, but Grits doubts they can scale up to solve the problem that way.See an excellent feature on eyewitness identification and how mind tricks can put innocent people behind bars.Already way overleveraged, Corrections Corporation of America has sent a letter to 48 states including Texas offering to buy their old prison units Celebrating Valentine's Day when your loved one is in jail. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 8:11 am
Earlier coverage of the Texas drug switch and TDCJ secrecy is at the links. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 5:03 am
They failed to take that next step in 2011, but budget circumstances may force their hand by 2013.Prison costs won't be foremost on legislators' minds next year - budgets for schools and health care will be billions in the red, compared to perhaps several hundred million less available for TDCJ - but the legislators charged with budgeting for them will be confronted with a similar question: Grow and tax or how to safely cut? [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:56 am
Reported the SA Express-News ("Inmate cooks give back at food bank," Feb. 5): Most employers are turned off by ex-convict applicants, [TDCJ laundry, food and supply director Tony D'Cunha] said, but hiring from this program has been “exceptional. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 11:03 am
If the trends continue, Chairman Bell stated it might be possible more prisons could close in the future.TDCJ executive director Brad Livinsgston told the board that "the closure of the Central Unit is a success story that the TDCJ can tout. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 4:56 am
I don't necessarily believe TDCJ is prepared to take over prisoner healthcare, either from a financial nor a management perspective. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:09 am
Several female inmates from TDCJ's Mountain View unit have published a prisoner cookbook describing methods for (sometimes illegally) cooking with commissary items. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 7:41 am
According to TDCJ, five execution dates have been set thus far in 2012; one was recently stayed. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 5:01 am
Will the Legislative Budget Board authorize extra interim expenditures - as they did for the $5 million per month extra being spent on TDCJ healthcare - or will they let the system limp along, noncompliant, until the 2013 session? [read post]
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]
24 Jan 2012, 12:14 pm
TDCJ notes that six additional executions are already scheduled for 2012, including one on February 1.. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 5:33 am
The facility is currently run by Community Education Centers.It's the checkpoints, stupidNo surprise to Grits readers, but the Texas Tribune reports that most contraband crossing into Texas from Mexico comes in at the checkpoints, not through the empty regions in between, which is one of many reasons this blog always opposed a border wall as misdirected enforcement.Senate Criminal Justice interim chargesInterim charges (pdf) for the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee include studies of… [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am
When 2013 comes, if they want to cut TDCJ's budget they'll have to reduce the number of people incarcerated there. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 4:53 pm
Eroy Brown, a TDCJ prisoner serving time in a South Carolina prison to protect him from state retaliation, is up for parole, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Brown case highlights reluctance to parole long-time offenders," Jan. 18). [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 8:28 am
According to TDCJ, six exeuctions have been scheduled by Texas district courts for 2012. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 8:40 am
According to TDCJ, six exeuctions have been scheduled by Texas district courts for 2012. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 7:22 am
Inmates who die in TDCJ custody are buried there if no one claims the body, though "many family members fail to claim the bodies because they cannot afford burial expenses and want the prison agency to pay the costs instead. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 2:12 pm
By 2013, with prison health over budget, line-staff employment churning, and more prisoners entering TDCJ by the day, that tension will force Texas to either double down on de-incarceration reforms, following our southern brethren, or else tax-and-spend is the only way out of the mess we're in, which is exactly the reason Georgia is acting now.RELATED: Via Sentencing Law & Policy, from The Crime Report, "Getting prison numbers down for good. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 8:47 am
According to TDCJ, six exeuctions have been scheduled by Texas district court for 2012. [read post]
