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3 Mar 2011, 5:31 am
Building or leasing new prisons isn't an option if you want to cut $786 million from TDCJ's requested biennial budget, as Gov. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:05 am
Regular readers know TDCJ recently released its finally approved cuts to be implemented the current fiscal year (i.e., immediately, in the current budget cycle; see this pdf summary). [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 6:48 am
After all, both the Governor and the filed version of HB 1 would cut nearly $800 million from TDCJ's budget. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:58 am
But still, this and other similarly draconian measures are being debated seriously at the same time as $584-$786 million cuts are being demanded at TDCJ. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:47 am
And while inmates can appeal a ruling by requesting a review from a TDCJ committee, Medlock said 87 percent of appeals are denied. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 2:45 pm
These cuts must occur in this year's budget, between now and August, while budget cuts contemplated in HB 1 and SB 1 would begin in September 2011 for the coming biennium.MORE: From the SA Express News, "TDCJ cuts 550 jobs, drops Project RIO. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 7:13 pm
Texas has three more executions scheduled in 2011, however, all are after the date that TDCJ has said its stock of sodium thiopental expires. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 8:43 am
I agree with all these suggestions and have suggested in the past how TDCJ and the Legislature could cut in other areas to not only justify but leverage that spending.Pressure on the number of forensic hospital beds, which have remained static in recent years and are threatened with cuts, has been growing at an equally alarming rate: "The number of criminal defenants who needed to stay for the maximum number of days allowed for initial forensic commitments (120 days) rose by 30%. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 5:26 am
In the wake of a recent audit alleging that the University of Texas Medical Branch overcharged for prison health services, I was interested to note that both the House and Senate budgets would university medical providers to get written permission from LBB to charge TDCJ more for services than would be allowable under Medicaid.Rider 58 in the proposed Senate budget (large pdf, p. 599) declares that TDCJ "shall not pay rates to health care providers for hospital services… [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 6:24 pm
According to TDCJ, four more executions are scheduled in Texas during 2011; including one next week. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 8:04 am
According to TDCJ, four more executions are scheduled in Texas during 2011; including one next week. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 7:37 am
" Technical revocations still awfully high after much-vaunted probation reformsGovernor endorses radical cuts to prison agency Corrections budget cuts concentrated in community supervision, set TDCJ up to fail Adios to Texas State Law Library? [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 7:38 am
Currently average time in county is 28 days before heading to TDCJ after an inmate is paper ready, says LBB. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 4:59 pm
TDCJ still plans to eliminate some treatment capacity and Project RIO, the job assistance/reentry program, as part of its 2.5% cuts, which must be implemented in the current fiscal year. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 1:15 pm
This encourages providers to resolve even the most valid and pressing inmate grievances in favor of TDCJ rather than in favor of the inmate. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 6:47 am
So his decision to use that pulpit to support radical cuts at TDCJ is perhaps telling. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 5:22 am
The Lege won't get there simply following TDCJ's increasingly absurd recommendations.MORE: From Mike Ward, see additional details on the proposed TDCJ cuts to community supervision and diversion programs. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 4:00 am
With his enhancements, punishment was assessed at 20 years in TDCJ-ID. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 2:17 pm
Due to my violation of probation I appeared before the Judge in Dallas County 265th District Court who sentence me to 4 years in TDCJ. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:18 am
But Collin County appears to just take the diversion money then blithely continue to send more people to TDCJ. [read post]
