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25 Sep 2009, 12:00 am
Take a look at TDCJ's Fugitive Watch web page. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 4:47 am
As a result, inmates are transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) more quickly ... and the County yielded a $531,000, savings in incarceration costs between October 2007 and August 2008 alone.Because Harris County currently sends inmates to other counties and to a private prison in Louisiana, TFDP estimates that for every reduction of ten prisoners in the jail, the county saves $10,800 per month in money paid to other jail systems.PDs also offer greater financial… [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 8:41 pm
According to TDCJ, eight additional executions are scheduled in Texas over the next nine weeks. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 8:49 am
According to TDCJ, eight additional executions are scheduled in Texas this year, through November 19. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 2:51 am
Spokesman Jason Clark "attributes TDCJ's high usage in Abilene to the approximately 5,000 offenders â€â [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 7:34 am
To date, Virginia has carried out 103 executions; Oklahoma, 91.According to TDCJ, nine more executions are scheduled in Texas this year, through November 19. [read post]
17 Sep 2009, 12:50 am
In yet another effort to combat contraband smuggling, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice instituted a lockdown yesterday at 14 maximum security units, reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:More than 35,000 convicts at 14 of Texas' toughest prisons have been placed on lockdown status in a new crackdown on contraband smuggling â€â [read post]
13 Sep 2009, 11:58 pm
And Carol Vance was no softie as Harris DA (he also did a stint at TDCJ board charirman). [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 8:58 am
A TDCJ chaplain admitted to smuggling letters out of death row on behalf of inmates, possibly including one that containing a veiled against a member of state Sen. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 9:57 am
I thought these 2008 data from TDCJ about prisoners' access to the courts were interesting, supplying metrics for broadly comparing in-prison writ writing activity to the level of outside legal representation for prisoners. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 6:07 am
Still, if it's a priority, it'd be technologically possible to identify and chase down unauthorized cell phone users without blocking legitimate communications.Either way, TDCJ could implement cell phone locator technology relatively quickly if it can find the funding. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 8:15 am
In the most recent quarter, vacancy rates for psychiatrists at TDCJ topped 35%. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 8:45 pm
I had experienced everything I was intended to experience in TDCJ. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 12:44 am
" TDCJ officials say the policy will likely be implemented sooner than later.Search policies on laptops at the borderCrimProf blog rounds up links on new US policies for searching laptops at border crossings, noting that "The Ninth Circuit has ruled that the constitution does not preclude warrantless and suspicionless searches of laptop computers at the border. [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]
26 Aug 2009, 11:51 pm
Wiccan volunteers also lead worship sessions at two TDCJ facilities outside of Houston, department spokesman Jason Clark said. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 11:12 pm
"The more important function of good time in Texas, Habern opined, is as a sanction that TDCJ can take away from inmates as punishment. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 2:38 am
The latter in Texas is only a sentencing option in capital murder cases and as of 2008, just 71 Texans had received LWOP sentences, according to the report, while 8,558 offenders (6.1% of TDCJ's total inmate population) were serving life sentences in Texas adult prisons but will ultimately be eligible for parole. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 1:13 am
(More than 60% of offenders in TDCJ's institutional division are eligible for parole, according to the agency's annual statistical report - pdf, p. 15). [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 9:29 am
At the Dallas Morning News Crime blog, Diane Jennings has, "TDCJ official says foreign death penalty opponents funding cell phone smuggling. [read post]
