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5 Jun 2014, 11:20 am
At this point, it’s not clear whether the TDCJ van was at fault or not. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 3:46 pm
A whopping 58.9 percent of respondents said they were assaulted by a staff member, which jibes with past investigations into sexual assault at TDCJ. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 2:16 pm
How TDCJ understaffing spurred the rise of African cuisine in East TexasAs has been previously reported, there are a lot of African immigrants working in TDCJ. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 7:14 am
Likely TDCJ officials are hoping against hope that Sen. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 8:27 am
Some at TDCJ were old men who died at the end of long sentences. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:37 am
Faced with dwindling staff, TDCJ had to close several more dorms at a South Texas lockup. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 12:16 am
But now Mike Ward at the Statesman reports TDCJ is shifting that money around to give larger raises to supervisors ("Prison guards say pay raise not as much as promised," Aug. 29):Four months ago, with the state budget feeling the pinch of a diving economy, Texas' 24,000 correctional officers cheered the news that the Legislature had given them a 3.5 percent pay raise, effective this fall.By Friday, that thrill was fading: Prison officials acknowledged correctional officers… [read post]
7 May 2012, 8:04 am
The Back Gate posed an interesting question to Texas prison staff and got some animated responses: "Is TDCJ violating your privacy rights by requiring you give them your Facebook password? [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 4:39 pm
Thirty-one people successfully committed suicide in TDCJ in 2014; 21 had done so as of this August 2015 report.According to the same document, the ratio of suicide attempts in 2014 was the highest in recent history at 64.1 per 10,000 offenders, and the monthly totals are higher, even, this year. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 3:56 am
So it takes a lot of chutzpah for TDCJ to blame families for contraband! [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 6:12 pm
Smith, who was arrested yesterday, is a guard with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Institutional Division. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 7:22 am
To the Youthful Offender Program at TDCJ. [read post]
17 May 2020, 12:46 pm
(See this report documenting monthly totals.)Last year, TDCJ averaged 5,475 new receives per month, so the reduction is attributable almost entirely to the lack of new intake. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 8:48 am
At Texas Monthly, Pam Colloff has a profile of former TDCJ flak Michelle Lyons titled, "The Witness," focused mainly on the 278 executions Lyons witnessed as part of her job before her termination/resignation in 2012. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 5:38 am
Of FY 2010 probationers, 247,102 were under felony supervision, with 172,818 misdemeanor probationers.Violent offenders made up 51.2% of TDCJ prisoners onhand, but just 20% of prisoners released in FY 2010. [read post]
26 Aug 2018, 6:31 am
TDCJ has the data, which they compile for internal monthly reports that aren't posted on their website. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 5:03 am
Governor Rick Perry has withdrawn the nomination of Annette Raggette to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice which oversees the state prison system after this blog broke the news, followed up by a story in the Austin Statesman, that she has close business ties and worked for years for an eponymous company run by TDCJ board chairman Oliver Bell. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 6:04 am
TDCJ will never propose that, but it's really what ought to happen.When you have the chance to make government smaller and cost less, why not take it? [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 8:55 am
The average Texas prison inmate's reading and math skills are at a fifth grade level, the superintendent of TDCJ's Windham School District told the Senate Criminal Justice Committee this morning.Large numbers of the nearly 70,000 inmates leaving Texas prisons every year, he told the committee, do so without a GED. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 3:54 am
The Lege had formally delegated the decision which units to close to TDCJ, but no other facilities ever arose as likely candidates, despite complaints by locals in Mineral Wells that this would hurt the economy. [read post]
