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28 Dec 2010, 2:04 pm
Reacting to this Grits post, Matt Kelley at Change.org's Criminal Justice blog has created an online petition titled "It's Time to Close Prisons in Texas," asking Texas Department of Criminal Justice chief Brad Livingston to consider prison closures in budget cutting plans being prepared for the legislative session next spring. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 3:36 am
I guaran-damn-tee a moment will come during the 82nd Texas Legislature when legislators (or their staff) will tell TDCJ chief Brad Livingston exactly that: If you'd do it yourself, we wouldn't have to do it for you. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 5:34 am
"This is a fundamental shift they are proposing," said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.In a Nov. 22 letter to Livingston, UTMB proposed ending its 16-year contract with the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee , a state agency created to oversee and monitor prisoners' care, and contracting directly with the prison system.Dr. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 5:00 am
Kramer, Deanna Kwong, Brad Lane, Steve Lauff, Lewis E. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:30 am
"The men and women recognized this year have promoted positive change both in those inmates who are incarcerated, and those who have been released,” said Livingston. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 5:36 am
" However, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston is distinguishing "rapes" from consensual sex between guards and inmates. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 6:47 am
To the credit of Director Brad Livingston, he did emphatically point out the likely negative impact of the proposed cuts if actually made in the TDCJ budget. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 12:31 pm
Captain Brad Wells of the Madison County Sheriff's department said, "This appears to be strictly an accident. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 4:24 am
Brad Livingston, TDCJ's executive director, stated that just a year ago the agency had nearly 4,000 vacant Correctional Officer positions open. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:54 am
(Unfortunately, no one strongly pressed the point with TDCJ director Brad Livingston on why nearly all his suggested budget cuts came from the probation and treatment side.)Local probation officials were particularly insistent on two critical points: The need for accurate assessment tools, which the Dallas chief emphasized must be used immediately when the offender enters the system (not months down the line), and the need for focusing limited resources on supervising medium and… [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:56 am
The Texas House Appropriations Committee yesterday gave Department of Criminal Justice director Brad Livingston a pass on whether prison closures should be part of his agency's budget cutting strategies.He walked the committee through his list of suggested budget cuts (pdf), but legislators allowed these very politicized proposals to frame the terms of debate. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 10:44 am
At a House Appropriations Committee meeting today, House Corrections Chairman Jim McReynolds asked TDCJ chief Brad Livingston if private prison-contracts up for renewal might increase their rates and increase costs for the state.Livingston said that was possible, since contracts covering the 12,000 or so private beds for which TDCJ contracts are 5-7 years old. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 9:08 am
Executive Director Brad Livingston reported that as of January 31, TDCJ had just 512 vacancies among correctional officer slots, down from around 4,000 vacancies in fall of 2007. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
Also, executive director Brad Livingston will report to the board on correctional officer staffing and prison health issues. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 2:05 am
Maybe that's a question the Senate Criminal Justice Committee should ask the next time they haul Brad Livingston in front of them to talk about contraband and death row security. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 1:11 am
The rest of the senate committee and a few interested House members, however, stayed to listen to TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston give a brief report on contraband interdiction and the rollout of new rehab beds authorized during the last two sessions. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 4:27 am
Livingston, U.S. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:15 pm
In that light, raising guard pay by 20% would directly violate that pledge.But the state could use stimulus money to pay for other expenses and use the difference to offset increased guard pay without technically spending the surplus money, though the net effect would be essentially the same.According to TDCJ's in-house Connections magazine, boosting guard pay is still the agency's top legislative priority:Although the Department of Criminal Justice will be seeking additional… [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 9:07 am
The suit named as defendants Brad Livingston, the corrections department's executive director; Nathaniel Quarterman, director of the department's institutional division; Tim Simmons, the Polunsky Unit warden; and Kenneth Hammack, the Polk County sheriff. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 2:30 pm
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" 'We have come to the conclusion that proceeding with this presentation would violate federal law, and we are not willing to violate the law in the pursuit of protecting it,' said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
