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22 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
There are a small number of very expensive prisoners in TDCJ, a handful of whom cost the agency more than one million dollars each annually.The Chairman's main drug court bill (HB 530, discussed here and here) passed with flying colors. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 3:48 am
In its Legislative Appropriations Request, TDCJ estimated the annual cost to staff and operate three new prisons would be $72 million. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 2:53 am
Prison rape isn't as funny as it used to beThe TYC story is far from over; the same tales at TDCJ have barely begun to be told.UPDATE: I just noticed this post from The Back Gate similarly arguing that TDCJ and TYC suffer from essentially the same problems. [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 5:51 am
Let's face it, it's not like TDCJ was particularly well managed while he was there! [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 12:38 am
Jessica Farrar: Lege helped cause TYC troublesBad apple guard migrated from TDCJ to TYCUTMB officials testify about TYC medical careFeds find 'alarming,' 'chaotic,' violence at TYC unitAre abuses really the exception? [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 8:57 am
But if the Legislature fully funds a stronger probation system, he announced, the Legislative Budget Board has calculated over the same period TDCJ's prison population could actually reduce by 4-5,000.That's quite a turnaround. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 8:03 am
Related Grits coverage on TYC and the Owens family: Settled lawsuit alleges TYC's Ed Owens covered up sex abuse scandal at TDCJ! [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 4:05 am
OTOH, there's plenty of anecdotal and some statistical evidence that TDCJ tolerates prison rape now, HIV rates in Texas prisons are high, and already cost TDCJ a whopping 40% of its entire pharmacy budget! [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 1:36 pm
In any event it's certainly an allegation that he and others at TDCJ covered up a sex scandal - allegations that TDCJ answered with a cash payment instead of a public defense in court. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 10:51 am
(They need to look at the same problems at TDCJ, while they're at it.) [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 8:53 am
"So in light of the routine discovery of convicted innocents, reported abuses at TYC, poor healthcare and dehumanizing treatment of prisoners at TDCJ, and Texas' deadly local jails, prosecutors might well ask "how great are we if we don't hold those accountable who mistreat" our prisoners? [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 6:33 am
Buentello was found guilty in Walker county for his preverse acts against several subordinates on the job with him at his Huntsville TDCJ office. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 10:19 am
But the Legislative Budget Board's methodology merely takes the current cost per prisoner at TDCJ and multiplies it by the number of new prisoners.Problem is, we're already leasing 1,900 beds from counties, and the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee needs to reduce, not increase that number. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 4:56 am
Plus, they removed the statute of limitations for this and other sex crimes entirely, inviting faulty testimony decades after the fact.This bill invites worse prison overcrowding, spiraling geriatric health costs at TDCJ, and more innocent people in prison because of the change in the statute of limitations. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 5:34 am
Perhaps later, looking back with hindsight, we'll see yesterday as a turning point, when abuses at TYC began to be cleaned up, a significant conflict of interest at TDCJ was eliminated with the parole board, and the tough on crime juggernaut that caused Texas' prison boom began to be seriously reconsidered. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
Chairman Madden said there were two individual inmates at TDCJ whose healthcare cost taxpayers $1.5 million per year each. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 8:55 am
The list of scheduled executions maintained by TDCJ is here.... [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 2:32 pm
" Jorge is a resident himself at TDCJ's state hotel. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 6:11 am
Funding for MHMR, TDCJ and mental health services and the mental health patients impact on county jails. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 12:48 pm
It would expand TDCJ's authorization to contract for beds by 1,000 beds in anticipation of Madden and Whitmire's larger community supervision package. [read post]
