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15 Nov 2011, 12:59 pm
Presently, the Sunset Advisory Commission has begun its review of TDCJ and other criminal justice-related agencies, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 8:10 am
And I know there's at least some cross-pollination between TDCJ and private contractors.Grits wonders what a more comprehensive review would reveal about this "revolving door" pheomenon between the leadership of private and state-run prison systems? [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 12:54 pm
The UT Board of Regents approved a 30-day extension of UTMB's contract with the Department of Criminal Justice to provide prison healthcare, but vowed to end the contract after December if the state can't come up with roughly $100 million more than was budgeted by the Lege this spring, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 6:28 am
.'TDCJ can't parole illegal immigrants in part because of federal judge shortageThough Texas passed a law this year to speed up parole of deportation-eligible prison inmates, the state has yet to begin doing so, reports the Houston Chronicle, because the feds don't have adequate staff to process the extra cases. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 7:28 am
TDCJ notes that two additional executions are scheduled for 2011, in November. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 6:33 am
It's mentioned in passing but honored mostly in the breach.Prep reading to participate in TDCJ, parole board Sunset processActivists who work on issues related to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or the Board of Pardons and Paroles will want to at least skim though their"self evaluation reports" here and here (large pdfs), respectively. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 6:26 am
TDCJ notes that two additional executions are scheduled for 2011, in November. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 9:34 am
"And they'll formally revisit prison health financing in the wake of devolving negotiations between TDCJ and UTMB: "Monitor the administration of the Correctional Managed Health Care system. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 6:12 am
From the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition's latest newsletter: TDCJ's Sunset Review is Beginning - We Want Your Input! [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 6:55 am
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]
23 Oct 2011, 6:41 am
One imagines scaling back to two meals might also spur commissary sales, which through a jaundiced eye might look cynical after the Lege told TDCJ last spring to seize money in prisoner commissary accounts to pay for their healthcare and confiscated commissary profits for budget reduction that would have gone to "inmate recreational and educational materials. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 4:18 am
Eric Dexheimer at the Austin Statesman today has an interesting story on how budget cuts will affect compliance/enforcement positions at Texas state agencies. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 5:20 am
Indeed, finding providers willing to take Medicaid rates is already a challenge in the free world, so it remains to be seen how all this will play out.In any event, this is good news in the medium term for Texas budget writers, even if it's an especially complicating factor for TDCJ's ability to contract for hospital care, with UTMB or anybody else, in the short run. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 8:32 am
Earlier coverage of the new TDCJ policy on last meals begins at the link. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am
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]
17 Oct 2011, 4:52 am
Thanks to all of those willing to give the time to shared so much helpful info and opinions regarding TDCJ, BPP, laws, other groups/committees, legal issues, treatments and conditions of parole and/or probation, the Legislature, lobbying, literature, science and studies, philosophy, current events and so much more on ways we can make a difference. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 9:20 am
TDCJ-CID (Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act)Buxton v. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 5:26 am
Just 1,010 inmates age 60 and up entered TDCJ that year, according to the annual statistical report. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 4:05 am
TDCJ-CID, 2011 U.S. [read post]
2 Oct 2011, 7:08 am
(CORRECTION: A reader alerts me that, according to TDCJ's annual statistical reports, 11 new defendants were sent to death row in FY 2009 and 10 in FY 2010, numbers which are for some reason slightly higher than reported in the MSM.)It's been said many times that Texas executed more people during Rick Perry's tenure than under any modern US Governor, but that stems mainly from two factors: His longevity in office and the fact that, because death cases take so long to get… [read post]
