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20 Jun 2007, 8:42 am
TDCJ maintains a list of scheduled executions, here. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 2:30 am
Including staff duties currently performed by prisoner trustees, TDCJ is probably 5-6,000 guards short of optimal staffing before a single new prison is built. [read post]
16 Jun 2007, 2:43 am
Perry to TDCJ COs: No education for you! [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 11:33 am
The amount of general revenue funds appropriated to TDCJ grew by almost 10 percent from the 2006-2007 biennium. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 2:36 am
As I wrote recently:Much has been made of the approximately $200 million in new community supervision and diversion funding, but the really big increase in TDCJ's new budget comes in the "institutional division," i.e., at the prisons themselves.Texas prisons will cost taxpayers $375 million more in the next biennium than the last - a 9.4% increase in General Revenue funds over the last budget just to cover the baseline before we construct any new prison units.The Legislative… [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:13 am
Hearing recently of his death, a man who says he's the real rapist came forward (he's currently doing 99 years in TDCJ already) and is requesting DNA testing to clear the dead man's name. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 11:25 pm
Ed Owens new TYC CzarThe Back Gate: Ed Owens wrong leader for TYCSettled lawsuit alleged Ed Owens covered up TDCJ sex abuse scandalIs the party already over for TYC's Ed Owens? [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 7:51 am
TDCJ maintains a list of scheduled executions, here. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 4:28 am
Time will tell.The lion's share of new criminal justice funding, though, as always, will happen at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.More than 90% of new probation funding comes in the form of grants administered by TDCJ designed to encourage use of progressive sanctions and prison diversion alternatives prescribed in various bills that passed the 80th Lege and are currently awaiting the Governor's approval. [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]
6 Jun 2007, 7:46 am
TDCJ maintains a list of scheduled executions, here. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 2:20 am
The Urban Institute analyzed the relation between drug treatment and recidivism through interviews with hundreds of inmates released from TDCJ. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:23 am
TDCJ uses quick screening tests. [read post]
31 May 2007, 1:16 am
Any TYC or TDCJ folks who know more, please inform us in the comments.UPDATE: More news from Marlin! [read post]
29 May 2007, 1:31 am
It reads like one of Terry Keel's parliamentary rulings, avoiding the central questions and dressing up an unreasonable, politicized stance whose only real justification is political gain.The Governor's main, stated reason for a veto is that registering ex-offenders isn't part of TDCJ's "mission," but the state took away the voting right when offenders went to TDCJ, and it doesn't seem like a stretch to notify them when that restriction is… [read post]
28 May 2007, 1:48 am
Talk to TDCJ," Ms. [read post]
27 May 2007, 5:39 am
Mike McKinney (who happens to have been my boss years ago at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission).Kimbrough's departure leaves former TDCJ #2 man Ed Owens Czar of the TYC system for the next two years. [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]
24 May 2007, 1:34 pm
More on this when I get more.The Senate included only $35 million in the next budget for prisons, but that relatively small amount (in the scheme of TDCJ's budget) commits Texas taxpayers to annual payments of $106 million or more for the next twenty years to cover debt payments and prison operating costs. [read post]
24 May 2007, 11:00 am
HB 199 by Representatives Madden (R-Plano), Noriega (D-Houston), and Leibowitz (D-Helotes), and carried by Senator Whitmire (D-Houston) in the Senate - which creates a residential infant care program for mothers confined in TDCJ facilities - passed the Senate on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, and was signed in the House today! [read post]
