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14 May 2014, 6:45 am
That is where you are sentenced to prison (in this case George got 10 years in TDCJ) but the court allows you do probation after spending a few months in prison. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:33 am
Our understanding is that a similar limitation will be considered for TDCJ correctional officers. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 9:24 am
According to TDCJ, two more executions are scheduled for this year, including one next week. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 3:37 am
In fact, the official response to problems clearly caused by prison-like features has been to move even further in the direction of making TYC more like TDCJ - precisely the opposite of what's needed, in light of TYC's history. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 8:08 am
TDCJ notes that three additional executions are scheduled for 2011. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 11:25 pm
Securities analysts are telling investors the Coke County incident was an isolated case and that Texas officials are not on a "witch hunt" aimed at other Geo facilities:If Geo did lose its other contracts with the TDCJ, he said, it would cost the company 7 to 8 cents per share each year. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 9:26 am
According to TDCJ, four additional executions are scheduled in Texas during 2009, including three on consecutive nights next week. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 7:16 am
At a minimum, though, maybe TDCJ's gang unit should share its lists with Mexico's immigration authorities and enhance parole supervision for gang members in border regions.It's become popular lately for politicians to speak of a possible "spillover" of violence from Mexico to the United States, so it's remarkable and disorienting to discover so much of the "spillover" is really in the other direction.Relatedly, here's an excellent breakdown from… [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 4:21 am
Rodney Ellis gave out some data on arson cases I hadn't heard before: He said 742 people are currently locked up in TDCJ for arson, with 275 per year on average convicted statewide on felony arson charges. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 11:37 pm
Our existing prisons are shortstaffed and there's little evidence TDCJ could find more guards at current pay rates, even if the state spent the billions necessary to construct new ones. [read post]
26 Dec 2011, 8:20 am
If his conviction in 1986 had never been overturned, Morton's would remain a secret tragedy, like hundreds or probably thousands of others in TDCJ. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 5:41 pm
I offered a conservative guess that, according to the best estimates, somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 innocent people are presently incarcerated in TDCJ, and faulty eyewitness identification was the cause in 75-80% of the cases.I quickly walked through IPOT's specific concerns from our written comments, and in closing reminded the academics that, despite pleas for flexibility from law enforcement, their model policy will not be binding. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 7:49 am
"They're right that the Sunset process presents a great opportunity to pursue changes at TDCJ, the Board of Pardons and Parole, and also the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, all of which are up for review in 2012-13. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 9:25 am
To date, there have been 48 executions in the nation this year; 1,184 since 1977.According to TDCJ, one more execution is scheduled in Texas during 2009, on December 3rd. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 1:09 pm
He’d better have a really good explanation, or he’d be staring down the barrel of a double-digit sentence in TDCJ. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 10:22 am
Geo's 10-K reports that the company "generally require[s] at least 160 hours of pre-service training before an employee is allowed to work in a position that will bring the employee in contact with inmates in our domestic facilities" That's better than at the Dallas County Jail, but a far cry from the 300 hours required for TDCJ guards.Even more troubling in the short term, the company has a "significant level of indebtedness that could adversely affect our… [read post]
1 Jan 2010, 6:59 am
"Zero tolerance" on contraband fails spectacularly: TDCJ spent most of the year combating contraband - especially cell phones - at Texas prison units, only to have an inmate successfully smuggle a gun onto a prison medical transport and escape from custody. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:01 am
Here again, just like when Ed Owens was #2 man at TDCJ, we find that the justice system's interconnectedness requires the pair to interact professionally in ways that inevitably make decisions appear couched in secrecy to outsiders.Ward quoted Dianne Clements, president of Justice for All, a Houston-based crime victims' advocacy group, criticizing such surrpeptitiousness: "It's the same kind of cloak-and-dagger problem we have with knowing about adults who are coming out… [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 6:36 am
At the end of FY 2009 there were 155,076 inmates in Texas prisons, state jails and SAFP facilities, according to the TDCJ annual statistical report (pdf). [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
" I agree all those front-end causes are factors in mitigating the growth rate in prisoner numbers: Back in 2007, Texas' Legislative Budget Board predicted TDCJ would house about 17,000 more prisoners in 2012 than actually turned out to be the case. [read post]
