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4 May 2011, 9:13 am
According to TDCJ, eight executions are scheduled in Texas, including four in June. [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 9:33 am
The prisons are still full, and TDCJ still can't find enough guards to staff prisons we've got. [read post]
19 May 2007, 1:50 am
Terri Hodge on the final passage of her HB 44, which allows good time to be restored to inmates at the discretion of TDCJ after it's been taken away for a rule infraction. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 8:34 am
" See an excellent "heat map" showing which parts of Mexico have the highest rates of drug violence.Staffing, health, budgets up for discussion at TBCJI'm headed later today to a brief TDCJ board meeting (conveniently being held about a mile from my house), to hear the public presentations, hoping in particular to gain any hints about what the agency might suggest in response to demands by state leaders for 5% budget cuts. [read post]
Feds sue over Dallas jail healthcare: 'If people treated animals this way, they would be prosecuted'
14 Sep 2007, 5:32 am
But even today, similar problems exist in other facilities where UTMB operates, particularly Texas' adult and youth prison systems (TDCJ and TYC). [read post]
1 Oct 2007, 7:26 am
I worked for TDCJ for many years, NO A/C and the there is 1 TV for 400 inmates (that the guards watch most of the time)Another respondent declared:Don't speak about things that you know nothing about (air conditioning is available to the WARDEN and their staff, not general prison population on the prison farms). [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 12:11 pm
The TDCJ states almost 3,000 more violent prisoners were locked up in 2019 than 10 years earlier. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 6:48 am
Having blood drawn is part of the standard intake process at TDCJ and mentally ill offenders were given the option of having a police officer or a staff phlebotomist perform the procedure. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 7:06 am
Bottom line: The Pyote and Victory Field units are already living on borrowed time.Prisons are not jobs programs - that's true for both TDCJ and TYC. [read post]
23 May 2007, 1:30 am
If they'd made it to the House floor, by my count all of the above bills would have passed, which means in 2009 it should be a bit easier to come back for another bite at the apple.Meanwhile, many good bills still had legs yesterday, including TDCJ's Sunset bill, SB 909, which made it through the process. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am
" TDCJ chief Brad Livingston told the committee that any savings comes because private vendors pay their staff less money and have a less favorable benefit package than state employees.So essentially it'd be the deputies whose ox gets gored under a privatization scheme in Harris County, assuming there's any savings to be had at all. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 12:11 pm
The TDCJ states almost 3,000 more violent prisoners were locked up in 2019 than 10 years earlier. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 2:51 pm
But treatment in TDCJ-ID is no better than in the Harris County jail and, without mental health and drug treatment, he would likely be back in jail shortly after getting out.The flaw is not that we don't put Mr. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 7:44 am
TDCJ notes that five additional executions are already scheduled for 2012; the next is set for March 7. [read post]
2 May 2007, 12:56 am
The case leads me to wonder two things: Are TDCJ and OIG officials really trained and equipped for outside-world undercover work, or should they have let DPS or another agency handle it? [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 8:00 am
Texas police unions have been pushing for collective bargaining for years, but before now I've seldom heard anyone supporting the concept for jail or prison guards.Scholarships backed for TDCJ-bound studentsRep. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 10:36 pm
I didn't follow up, but larger population centers also have a much higher cost of living than Dalhart, Palestine, or Livingston - I'm not sure that will necessarily solve the problem.The Statesman's Mike Ward, whose earlier reportage first revealed the Dalhart-wing closure, pointed out that thousands of trusties - who perform routine guard functions and frequently are allowed free passage in TDCJ vehicles to run errands outside facilities - are eligible for parole and could… [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 8:13 am
Kaufman County has 19 “Hold For TDCJ” inmates right now, that’s more than any other criminal offense. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 3:08 pm
The district judge said the TDCJ “will accommodate Ramirez’s religious beliefs by giving Ramirez access to his pastor on the day of execution and allowing him to stand nearby during the execution. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:20 am
To support his claim, appellant pointed out the following facts to show that, as applied in his case, the prison chapel trial violated his constitutional rights: The prison is protected by double razor fences, locked metal doors, and high-security procedures; Only people listed on an inmate-defendant's approved visitor list could enter the branch courthouse to attend proceedings (only 10 names can appear on that list and the names can only be modified once every 6 months); Media and other… [read post]
