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15 Nov 2011, 6:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
And they'd have us believe that the "obstacle" to fixing this problem is that the board should have more control over TDCJ parole officers? [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 3:06 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Up to 50,000 prisoners have Hep C, TDCJ officials have estimated, which means they make up around nine percent of the total 580,000 estimated cases statewide. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 8:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This brief Grits blog post alerted the Senate Nominations Committee to conflicts of interest by TDCJ board nominee Annettee Raggette, the sister-in-law and former business partner of TDCJ board chair Oliver Bell, whose nomination was withdrawn within a week. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 5:44 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A consultant referred to TDCJ by the PREA Resource Center absurdly suggested that TDCJ solve this proglem by removing security camersas and obstructing lines of sight. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Lowry supports expanding TDCJ, my point was that the union's proposal for higher across-the-board pay would expand TDCJ's budget, though perhaps closing two private units and expanding parole would partially make up for the extra cost. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 9:13 am
Prisoners flock to Tango Blast because they need protection TDCJ does not or cannot provide, not necessarily to engage in crime and thuggery.Fully staffing prisons (TDCJ is 3,000 guards short right now) while maintaining or reducing the number of prisoners incarcerated would do more than anything else to improve safety, which is why TDCJ's bid to increase pay for prison workers is so important. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 10:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Leeper and TDCJ's medical director will be meeting to discuss the subject. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
When 2013 comes, if they want to cut TDCJ's budget they'll have to reduce the number of people incarcerated there. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 5:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Just 1,010 inmates age 60 and up entered TDCJ that year, according to the annual statistical report. [read post]
6 May 2020, 2:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the article, TDCJ has already stopped doing these treatment programs in person and has switched to correspondence courses where prisoners work on written packets in their cells. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 5:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has argued that ratcheting down these categories by one notch would bring dramatic relief both to the counties' and TDCJ's bottom line. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 11:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The article included this short video:Litigation over weather-related deaths at TDCJ heats upAfter years of anticipation, TDCJ finds itself in trial this week to determine whether their un-air conditioned prisons which have caused numerous heat-related deaths constitute unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.Straight ticket voting ends for Texas judges in 2020The Legislature this year eliminated straight ticket voting for judicial elections beginning in 2020. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 4:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Riddle's bill would expand the prohibition to second and third degree felonies, forcing TDCJ to incarcerate those individuals longer. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
People just find probation terms too difficult and a portion of them give up and stop complying, tempting fate and more importantly for our purposes, incarceration in TDCJ. [read post]
13 Apr 2013, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Four Price wants to amend the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Sunset bill to require data sharing architecture between TDCJ, the parole board, the Windham School District and correctional managed healthcare, contending that "The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing." [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
From the data therein on "paper ready" inmates awaiting transfer to TDCJ, Grits created this chart:So, there's been a slight, recent uptick. [read post]