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5 Apr 2011, 7:59 am
As reported by the Texas Tribune, public documents showed that TDCJ officials did not consult medical or pharmaceutical professionals, but relied on news and online accounts of another state's recent use of pentobarbital in making their decision to switch. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:57 pm
Tomorrow’s planned execution reflects a broader pattern of the TDCJ keeping information about its execution process from the public eye. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 8:04 am
Levin disagrees, saying the TDCJ unnecessarily withheld its plans for the new drug from death-row inmates for months. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 4:57 am
If the Lege were required to pay as they go, increasing TDCJ's budget at the margins whenever they pass laws sending more prisoners there, Texas could afford to have everyone serve their full sentence. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 11:29 am
About 72,000+ prisoners leave TDCJ each year, about half of them with no community supervision by parole officers at all.Marc Levin from the Texas Public Policy Foundation pointed out that changing this policy would allow TDCJ to better use its pre-parole programming because it would provide more certainty regarding who would be released when, at least for a certain class of offenders. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:39 am
So I not only think this is a good idea for older youth, I'd like to see it expanded for adults with good discipline records in TDCJ, and I'm as puzzled why that's controversial as Chairman Madden is that anyone would support the program! [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:12 am
"[A]s a result, we believe that TDCJ is unlawfully in possession of an unlawfully dispensing controlled substances," the lawyers wrote in a letter to U.S. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:04 am
At the Austin Chronicle, Jordan Smith posts, "TDCJ Violating Federal Drug Laws? [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 1:41 pm
Attorneys for Foster and Leal asked the Department of Justice and DPS to investigate TDCJ’s potential violations and “take appropriate steps if TDCJ has violated federal (or state) law. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:31 am
TDCJ is available in Adobe .pdf format. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
That reality makes the prospect seem unlikely.It was already an open question whether the levels of funding in the state budget are adequate to provide constitutional levels of healthcare at TDCJ. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 1:17 pm
The bill was left pending but this is the type of legislation that could actually begin to make a serious dent in TDCJ's baseline budget and let them start to seriously talk about prison closures in the near term. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 12:56 pm
The ten TDCJ units with the most contraband cell phone discovered, reports the site, are:NEALCOFFIELDMCCONNELLSTILESFERGUSONTELFORDCLEMENSCLEMENTSRAMSEYESTELLE [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 9:24 am
The complaint asserts that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is subject to the APA when issuing rules and procedures for executions, and that TDCJ’s failure to follow the notice and comment provisions required by the APA violated state law. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:23 am
Texas already releases 72,000 people per year, so most folks in TDCJ are going to get out. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 8:00 am
Before the change in drugs, TDCJ stonewalled the public about its execution process -- it was only because of a court order that TDCJ revealed that its drug supply was about to expire. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:14 am
In this recent post, Grits compiled the various available estimates of actual innocence rates to guesstimate that some 2-3,000 people at any given time are locked up in TDCJ for a crime they didn't commit (estimates range from 1,200 to 5,000+).Evidence retention issues are a red-headed stepchild to begin with. [read post]
27 Mar 2011, 8:53 am
The question is, are budget writers listening to local judges and probation chiefs or bureaucrats at TDCJ? [read post]
27 Mar 2011, 8:00 am
(IMO metal detectors at the capitol should be eliminated and donated to TDCJ.) [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
Cutting programming that costs $4.4 million per biennium but that increases post-release employment rates and reduces recidivism is a meaningless, even counterproductive gesture when the Governor and budgetmakers in the House have demanded $786 million in cuts from TDCJ in the next biennium. [read post]
