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16 Sep 2007, 9:46 am
Ed Owens: New TYC CzarWill TDCJ take over TYC by stealth? [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
What a mess: An utterly predictable, and in fact predicted, management failure by the Lege and the governor's appointees on TDCJ's board. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 5:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If 73% of exiting prisoners each year pay that $24, that's just more than $1.25 million in lost revenue.The good news, reported Dee Wilson, who runs TDCJ's new Reentry division, is that inmates are now leaving TDCJ with sufficient documentation (usually a birth certificate and social security card) to get their own driver license when they leave custody. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 6:07 am
Still, if it's a priority, it'd be technologically possible to identify and chase down unauthorized cell phone users without blocking legitimate communications.Either way, TDCJ could implement cell phone locator technology relatively quickly if it can find the funding. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 5:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And since he's 54, TDCJ is getting him just when (according to averages) his health care costs are about to go up dramatically. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 4:50 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The risk-reward ratio of keeping these prisoners at TDCJ units is seriously screwed up. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 8:29 am by Steve Hall
Foster’s scheduled execution, that TDCJ has announced a decision to change the protocol by which they will execute Mr. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:15 pm
Additionally, the agency is seeking funding to construct three (3) 80-bed officer dormitories, which could be constructed adjacent to three (3) of our most understaffed units.Meanwhile, TDCJ says the understaffing problem would be even worse without bonuses paid to new hires wiling to work in understaffed units:Through October 2008, 1,322 recruitment bonus checks had been mailed to new or returning correctional officers who had taken the incentive TDCJ is offering as a way to boost… [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 8:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I hope they also interrogate TDCJ's suggestion for reducing the budget for "underutilized treatment programs. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 4:50 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The risk-reward ratio of keeping these prisoners at TDCJ units is seriously screwed up. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Data on TDCJ unit age and costAs 2011 budget crisis looms, should most expensive prison units be closed? [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 12:48 pm
It would expand TDCJ's authorization to contract for beds by 1,000 beds in anticipation of Madden and Whitmire's larger community supervision package. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:58 pm
For the most part, TDCJ does not allow contact visits. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
These prisoner demographics are the main cost driver for prison healthcare during an era when the Legislature has slashed funding for that purpose.In recent years, having made virtually everything a felony and pretty much maxxing out on possible sentence enhancements (hence all the absurd ones we get now like misrepresenting the size of a fish), the Texas Legislature has expanded use of mandatory-minimum sentences, introduced life-without-parole (which accounts for scores of new TDCJ… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 9:06 am by Steve Hall
She says the documents show that TDCJ ordered “the very three drugs that they use in lethal injections” from Amerisource’s Besse Medical. [read post]
20 May 2010, 3:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
This increase in the prevalence of serious mental illness among TDCJ offenders has significantly strained the personnel resources of the mental health program. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 2:06 pm by Brian Evans
  TDCJ is also asking that information on the cost of execution drugs be concealed from the public (aka taxpayers). [read post]