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1 Dec 2008, 9:13 am
Prisoners flock to Tango Blast because they need protection TDCJ does not or cannot provide, not necessarily to engage in crime and thuggery.Fully staffing prisons (TDCJ is 3,000 guards short right now) while maintaining or reducing the number of prisoners incarcerated would do more than anything else to improve safety, which is why TDCJ's bid to increase pay for prison workers is so important. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 1:55 pm
TDCJ has had a bad stretch of luck lately regarding alleged employee corruption, most recently not in the prison system but among parole staff, the SA Express News reported last week (11-20):A former employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice was arrested in San Antonio this week on charges of embezzling more than $100,000 while she worked for the parole division.A Travis County grand jury on Nov. 13 indicted Frances Jones Lawrence on a charge of theft by a public servant greater… [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 10:35 am
An article by Mike Ward in the Austin Statesman today ("Cell phones hard to find on death row," Nov. 23) makes me fear Texas prison administrators haven't learned the right lessons from the recent rash of contraband discoveries (particularly cell phones) on death row:"A year ago, we were amazed to find an inmate with both a cell phone and a charger up there," John Moriarty, the state prison system's inspector general, said Thursday. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 4:00 am
And for once I am taking side with the TDCJ. [read post]
21 Nov 2008, 3:33 am
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 5:55 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 9:58 pm
According to TDCJ, Robert Hudson has an execution date this Thursday, November 20. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 4:35 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
15 Nov 2008, 10:27 am
Over at The Back Gate, a prison staff-run website, a reader poll asks this question: "As a TDCJ employee, have you witnessed incidents on your unit that you were afraid to report to your warden(s) due to fears of career suicide and or retaliation? [read post]
15 Nov 2008, 9:59 am
TDCJ's statewide lockdown searching for cell phones has met with some success, but now that it's mostly over and new procedures are in place, they're still finding contraband, most recently again on death row, the Houston Chronicle reports, where "Prison staff conducting a shakedown of the row Friday found a cell phone secreted in the rectum of convicted murderer Henry Skinner at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston" using the X-ray machine in the infirmary. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 3:39 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 8:58 am
TDCJ officials yesterday updated the Legislature publicly for the first time (to my knowledge) on the status of health care services provided by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) after the prison hospital located on the island was closed because of Hurricane Ike. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 6:55 am
TDCJ has also found tobacco 87 times during the lockdown, marijuana 25 times. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 5:20 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 4:19 am
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions.The Houston Chronicle has this report on the execution of George Whitaker. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 10:04 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions.AP has this report on the execution of George Whitaker via the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 11:46 am
Study the issues of independent oversight of TDCJ, including the use and effectiveness of the TDCJ ombudsman system. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 10:46 am
Ana Correa from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition points out another good re-entry related bill authored by last session's House Appropriations Vice-Chairman Ryan Guillen, HB 70, described thusly in a TDCJ fact sheet she sent me (not online):Returning offenders need gainful employment in order to reintegrate and take personal responsibility.Texas has 168 state laws that forbid felons from obtaining jobs. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 7:35 am
The program is operated by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) through a contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 3:23 pm
TDCJ maintains this list of scheduled executions.AP has this report on the execution of Elkie Taylor Texas has by far the most active death chamber in the United States accounting for more than 37% of all the executions in America. [read post]
