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3 May 2010, 3:49 am by B.W. Barnett
Re-entry Court: This court deals with drug and alcohol users who have agreed (either as a term and condition of their probation or as the result of a probation modification) to enter either a county rehabilitation program or SAFP (TDCJ.) [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 7:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Review access to administrative and inspector general grievances in TDCJ facilities. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 6:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
You can also view all Death Row inmates.From my own experience with TDCJ data, I'm a little skeptical of the data on inmates by crime types, which becomes murky because inmates may be convicted of multiple offenses.Making matters worse, when I've gotten that information from TDCJ in the past it was poorly coded, often with different codes for the same offenses, and virtually impossible to decipher. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 11:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Collectively they account for more than 40% of TDCJ pharmaceutical costs. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 7:11 am by Steve Hall
According to TDCJ, nine additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including four in May. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 8:02 am by Steve Hall
According to TDCJ, nine additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including four in May. [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 7:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Personally I think that in larger cities, especially, these obscure offices have seen mission creep and expansion of duties that is both risky and redundant for these smallish, typically less professional agencies.Trusties and contrabandMike Ward at the Statesman has a story on contraband smuggling via loosely guarded TDCJ "trusty camps," following up on an incident where a Sugarland inmate went to Walmart on a shopping excursion.7-year sentence for prison guard who murdered… [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 7:05 am by Steve Hall
" According to TDCJ, 10 additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including one next week. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 7:50 am by Steve Hall
According to TDCJ, 10 additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including one next week. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 11:28 am by Steve Hall
Guaderrama also was the judge at Berkley's trial.According to TDCJ, 10 additional executions are scheduled through July of this year. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 5:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Increasingly I find TDCJ's call for exclusion from budget cuts ill-conceived, and even more so their suggestion that, if necessary, cuts should come from probation and diversion programs instead of prisons. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 4:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The problem most negatively impacts Houston, Dallas, and black communities, all of which disproportionately send inmates to TDCJ. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 7:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This is interesting; from a press release reprinted in the Huntsville Item:The G4 Faith Based Row, a program launched in the Wynne Unit in Huntsville, received the Governor’s 2010 Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award in recognition of its dedication to ministering to offenders incarcerated within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [last week].The award was presented by Texas Board of Criminal Justice Chairman Oliver Bell, and TDCJ Executive Director Brad Livingston today… [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 6:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are a pair of headlines that to me seem at least partly related:50 year old prison guard dies after fitness test, andIn down economy, police agencies seeing older, more weathered recruitTexas Department of Criminal Justice guard Robert Goodley was not a new recruit, but he was participating in a trial-run of a fitness test that new TDCJ recruits must already undergo and all COs will soon have to complete. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 5:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" However, TDCJ chief Brad Livingston is distinguishing "rapes" from consensual sex between guards and inmates. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 1:15 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Clearly TDCJ's 160,000 inmates represent a significant amount of buying power and taking them out of circulation reduces overall consumer demand. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At a minimum, though, maybe TDCJ's gang unit should share its lists with Mexico's immigration authorities and enhance parole supervision for gang members in border regions.It's become popular lately for politicians to speak of a possible "spillover" of violence from Mexico to the United States, so it's remarkable and disorienting to discover so much of the "spillover" is really in the other direction.Relatedly, here's an excellent breakdown from… [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 6:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"As I write this, Texas prisons release about as many inmates every year as they take in - more than 72,000 statewide - and the largest jurisdictions actually get back more people from TDCJ than they send. [read post]