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14 May 2007, 10:49 pm
He hopes that scores of terminations (most unrelated to any sex scandal) and shuttering two or three units will send a message to the public that the Governor and the Lege "did something" about TYC.Don't get me wrong, TYC desperately needs to be revamped (as does TDCJ). [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 6:04 am
Indeed, for years the board chair's husband ran TDCJ's institutional division which operates the state's 112 prisons (before he was tapped to be "conservator" at the Texas Youth Commission then retired - I wonder what Ed Owens is doing these days?). [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 3:51 am
There are readers on Grits for Breakfast, many of them Youth Commission employees, who think all this is happening because you want it to, because acting executive director Dimitria Pope and the crew of TDCJ transplants she has brought in are intentionally running the agency into the ground so that you can farm the contracts out instead to private prison firms or other contractors that may contribute to your campaign.My observation has been different: Even at the height of the media storm… [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
(Thankfully, commissaries in adult Texas prisons are operated by TDCJ.)It's clear that Texas needs to perform a comprehensive investigation/audit of county jail commissary contracts statewide. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 9:23 am
But it's pretty much nuts to me that nobody at TDCJ or the Lege insisted that ball get picked up - how can we not be analyzing Texas' main in-prison treatment program to see if it works or if it needs improvement? [read post]
14 Jul 2010, 2:55 pm
We sent the survey to a diverse group of recipients, including TCJC's internal list of criminal justice practitioners, members of the Texas Reentry Task Force, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, staff members of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its Community Justice Assistance Division, the Texas Association of Counties, the Urban County Association, participating providers of 2-1-1, and many other critical groups who are knowledgeable and care deeply about… [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:14 am
In this recent post, Grits compiled the various available estimates of actual innocence rates to guesstimate that some 2-3,000 people at any given time are locked up in TDCJ for a crime they didn't commit (estimates range from 1,200 to 5,000+).Evidence retention issues are a red-headed stepchild to begin with. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:52 pm
A photograph of the painting is at the LINK According to TDCJ, five additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2009. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 2:47 am
I'm not a stickler for such things, and all they missed was the prayer and congratulatory resolutions, but it's still annoying to watch one guy logging in for a dozen different members.TDCJ Staff: Get Livingston OutThe Back Gate lets us know TDCJ staff have begun a petition drive demanding the ouster of agency chief Brad Livingston. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 12:02 am
TDCJ studied the effect of higher education (August, 2000) using eight years of post-release data for 883 offenders who received college degrees while incarcerated between 1986 and 1992. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 8:17 am
According to TDCJ, six more executions are scheduled in Texas during 2011. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 5:20 am
Indeed, finding providers willing to take Medicaid rates is already a challenge in the free world, so it remains to be seen how all this will play out.In any event, this is good news in the medium term for Texas budget writers, even if it's an especially complicating factor for TDCJ's ability to contract for hospital care, with UTMB or anybody else, in the short run. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 4:28 am
According to TDCJ, eight additional executions have been scheduled for 2012 by state district courts. [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 8:31 am
In 2003, Texas changed the law to mandate such offenders receive probation on the first offense instead of incarcerating them in TDCJ state jails. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 9:34 am
Our media should have picked up on the outsourcing of border security operations long ago, but not a single reporter (MSM or otherwise) regularly attends meetings of the Public Safety Commission, much less covers the agency in remotely the level of detail, say, that the Austin Statesman's Mike Ward does for TDCJ. [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]
17 Aug 2007, 7:02 am
Let's see how many quickies I can get in the half hour before she and her hound arrive for a visit:TDCJ saw record number of guards arrested in 2006The number of TDCJ guards arrested in 2006 topped 800 for the first time ever, reports The Back Gate, many more than in other large states. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 11:48 pm
Adult Prison Staff Dominate AdministrationWill TDCJ take over TYC by stealth? [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 7:56 am
According to TDCJ, five additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2009. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 1:40 am
For his part, Owens was accused in a lawsuit that was settled last year at TDCJ of failing to act upon serious sex abuse allegations at that agency.So now we're in the following situation: TYC does not have a board as required under law and Governor Perry has not moved to appoint new boardmembers as he's empowered to, nor has he created a conservatorship, his other legal option. [read post]
