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20 Oct 2008, 6:12 pm
Guards and contraband smuggling in prisons and jailsChasing illegal cell phone use at TDCJ [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 7:49 am
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]
19 Oct 2015, 11:27 pm
Once you do that TDCJ will apply their own formula for calculating back time depending on what type of charge you have, which is 2 0 days for every 30 days you serve (or 50 days per month). [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:58 am
But still, this and other similarly draconian measures are being debated seriously at the same time as $584-$786 million cuts are being demanded at TDCJ. [read post]
25 May 2007, 1:47 am
But TDCJ does allow people with misdemeanor convictions to work in other positions, and that's what I intended to allow at TYC. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 7:24 am
According to TDCJ, five more executions are scheduled in Texas during 2010, including two more this month. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 6:28 am
.'TDCJ can't parole illegal immigrants in part because of federal judge shortageThough Texas passed a law this year to speed up parole of deportation-eligible prison inmates, the state has yet to begin doing so, reports the Houston Chronicle, because the feds don't have adequate staff to process the extra cases. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 7:33 pm
I've often thought that if SCOTUS ever does wind up abolishing the death penalty entirely down the line, it might well be because Texas does the most executions and our courts aren't giving these cases enough scrutiny.UPDATE: The CCA ruled later in the evening that the judge did not have the authority to stay the execution, but it was delayed anyway when TDCJ couldn't perform the deed by midnight. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 2:47 pm
The Tribune noted TDCJ produced an expert for a 2017 court hearing over high temperatures in the Wallace Pack Unit near College Station. [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 6:37 am
Their second most popular data app was their Texas inmate database, a service which duplicates one on the TDCJ website, which came in at just over 5 million page views.With web-traffic flagging, more media are putting unfiltered government data online precisely because of numbers like those - they look at their web traffic and see their prose isn't nearly the draw they hoped it might be, but database apps get much more traffic. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 12:19 am
View Testimony View Senate AnalysisSB 1557 by Senator Hinojosa - relating to the appointment of an attorney to represent an indigent defendant who is in the custody of a correctional facility of TDCJ - passed the Senate on the Local and Uncontested Calendar (Vote: Y: 31/N: 0) and is moving on to the House! [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 4:35 am
About half of new entrants to Texas prisons every year result from probation or parole revocations, so new programs aimed at reducing revocations have contributed greatly to resolving Texas' immediate prison overcrowding crisis.With news of a new probation facility opening in Texarkana, I spent a little more time checking around the TDCJ website this morning for more information about new probation funding. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 7:28 am
", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is overThe Odessa American has more detail on the fight orchestrated by TDCJ supervisors between a prisoner and guard at the Lynaugh unit southwest of Fort Stockton: "'offender Clark struck officer Acosta once in the mouth, knocking him to the ground,' the report said. [read post]
11 May 2009, 8:37 am
Current compensation only applies to time in a TDCJ cell, but not another kind of cell. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 8:10 am
And I know there's at least some cross-pollination between TDCJ and private contractors.Grits wonders what a more comprehensive review would reveal about this "revolving door" pheomenon between the leadership of private and state-run prison systems? [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 2:57 am
Regular readers know I've been harping on this issue for months, both at TDCJ and at local jails which also cannot find enough guards to staff their facilities. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 5:29 am
"Ideally TDCJ-CJAD would do this, perhaps even matching lists of surcharge-owers with current probationers, but this needs to happen ASAP. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 5:22 am
"For the most part, they're on a rocket sled headed for TDCJ, unless something really big steps in the way. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 1:44 am
Here are a BUNCH of great recent items from the blogosphere I thought I'd share with y'all this morning:Banjo Jones has compiled an excellent list of eccentric Texas town names.The Back Gate brings news of alleged civil rights violations at the Darrington Unit, points to an employee generated downloadable program that generates TDCJ forms for employees convenience, and an article describing barriers to increasing corrections staff.The StandDown Texas blog brings news of an event… [read post]
11 May 2011, 7:00 am
”The Court held that because these procedures were not offered to Appellant, he was entitled to the relief he sought: immediate release on mandatory supervision without sex-offender conditions, and, if TDCJ sought to re-impose such conditions he was entitled to the protection of the Meza due-process procedures. [read post]
