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20 Sep 2016, 8:59 am
More on this later, perhaps, after Grits has had the chance to read it.Guidance on operating inmate web pages At the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dave Maas offered guidance for people operating social media or web pages on behalf of Texas prison inmates, after TDCJ earlier this year banned such accounts when operated by a third party.Ticketed drivers need 'safe haven' to deal with debt College Station muni Judge Edward Spillane had a great suggestion for encouraging… [read post]
26 Aug 2013, 8:54 am
In 2012, just 3% of deaths in custody at TDCJ were executions; more than twice as many people committed suicide.Culture-war driven debates about capital punishment tend to revolve around phony, trumped up axes that I consider a waste of time and a diversion from other important matters. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 9:03 am
These include, but may not be limited to:County and District Courts (Clerk’s Office)Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)Criminal Justice Assistance Division (CJAD), a division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [P]rivate entities that purchase criminal records – whether from county and district courts, TDCJ, or elsewhere – are not routinely notified of updates reflecting orders of nondisclosure, expunction, or even final dispositions. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:42 am
I wanna track down more on these two men, so maybe more on these topics, soon.5) Between Keri Blakinger moving to SoCal, Jolie McCollough getting laid off, and Grits taking most of 2023 away, it's REMARKABLE how much shit TDCJ and TJJD can get away with with nobody paying close attention. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm
And so now, at many of those locations, there aren't enough warm bodies to fill the positions.Closing units where staffing problems are most acute would make a lot of sense from TDCJ management perspective. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 11:58 am
TDCJ did not bid the second time around.Hundreds of death in custody reports delayed. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 8:30 am
"Water outage ends at two TDCJ unitsNearly 2,000 prisoners and 400 staff at two Texas women's prison units, Hobby and Marlin, were without running water from Thanksgiving until Dec. 9, according to news reports. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 7:09 am
.* Before someone suggests it, keeping the State Counsel for Offenders as an arm of TDCJ instead of making it independent, like the SPA, has prevented it from ever aspiring to play such a role. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 10:16 am
In FY 2012, some 23,449 revoked probationers entered TDCJ, or 31.5% of all new receives during that fiscal year. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:49 pm
(The number of drug offenders in state jail is higher than full-blown prison: 33% compared to 14.8%; the 16.7% figure includes both.)The proportion of Texas inmates incarcerated for property/fraud/theft offenses is more than double that in the federal system - 16.1 Only 1.8% of Texas prisoners are incarcerated for weapons offenses, compared to 15% for the feds.The average sentence length of inmates on hand in TDCJ in 2012 was higher than the feds - 19.3 years compared to 9.5 years. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 6:22 am
The Geo Group is to TDCJ as the mercenary firm Blackwater was to the US Marines. [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 6:53 am
Meanwhile, Judge Gist is highly respected around the state, chair of the Judicial Advisory Council, and a Rick Perry appointee to the board at TDCJ. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 6:42 am
While I agree the law must change, Huffman's suggested fix needlessly expands the already growing and increasingly expensive bubble of prisoners serving life and LWOP sentences at TDCJ, part of a trend of the Calfornication of Texas prison sentences.Make me philosopher king and I'd just eliminate capital charges for both 17-year olds and juveniles charged as adults and see them all charged under regular murder statutes. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 5:10 pm
And those costs are FAR greater than the costs for those prisoners' lawyers.Grits has long believed the Lege should offer the Texas Association of Counties a deal on indigent defense: The state picks up the full indigent defense tab, and counties pay to incarcerate every defendant they send to TDCJ for the whole time they're inside. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 5:04 am
Certainly hiring the guy after he left TDCJ under a cloud of accusations, which TJJD knew about, raises some red flags, which Brandi's story ably articulates.The fact that the TYC transition went on for years and was such a mess for so long probably contributes to public officials' reticence to jump down the agency's throat, as happened ten years ago almost instantly when news of sexual abuse of kids arose near the beginning of session. [read post]
23 Sep 2013, 10:33 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward last month had a story regarding difficulties moving from training new ministers to actually having them perform ministers' duties at various TDCJ units. [read post]
22 May 2014, 10:48 am
" For long-time readers, this is a different group from the Texas Highway Patrol Association, though the economics of their telemarketing program operated on the same model.Audit draft criticizes Dallas probation on technical violationsReported the Dallas Morning News, a leaked TDCJ-CJAD audit of the Dallas County probation department found that "officers did not follow court or department policies more than two out of three times when handling 'technical violations' by… [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 11:01 am
According to the list, there have 1,736 deaths in custody at TDCJ between 2005 and so far in 2014.Consensus on privacy of cell-phone location records? [read post]
19 Jun 2016, 8:00 am
TDCJ must release that many every year or the system would become overcrowded and overrun. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 8:41 am
If it'd been spent on some combination of diversion programming and improved guard pay, maybe TDCJ wouldn't face the understaffing crisis that presently besets it.The border surge was for the most part a policy decision made outside the legislative process by a handful of state officials who are now exiting public service. [read post]
