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11 Feb 2010, 5:42 pm
That's a better strategy than sitting back and hoping the 2007 reforms will be enough to solve TDCJ's problems, when clearly more needs to be done. [read post]
22 May 2024, 3:09 am
Woodruff vs Lorie Davis, Director, TDCJ-CID (John D. [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 Oct 2010, 1:50 pm
”What's more, while Kuykendall claims her ex-husband confessed to her scant days before his execution, she gave an interview with a reporter immediately after that final visit in which she said she now believed he was guilty but that he did not confess when she spoke to him (FWIW, last year I filed an open records request asking for any recording from that visit, but TDCJ implausibly replied that no such records exist.)Watching Kuykendall as she stood mute by her… [read post]
1 Nov 2014, 4:05 pm
TDCJ-Inst. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:28 am
It's been a crazy year, both for me personally (I underwent throat-cancer treatment and lost nearly 100 pounds) and for the state and nation generally, between COVID, the Trump un-election, and the massive protests surrounding Houstonite George Floyd's death that in many ways defined the year.If we were ranking criminal-justice stories, those protests would be the biggest one from any traditional newsroom perspective, even if the coronavirus in jails and prisons claimed more lives. [read post]
27 May 2015, 4:20 pm
So, what the law just says is the court will set a date and the death warrant will be served on TDCJ. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 4:37 am
Having mentioned a handful of #cjreform victories from the 86th Texas Legislature - most notably, by far, abolition of the Driver Responsibility surcharge - we must also acknowledge that the session overall was a major disappointment for anyone interested in reforming the justice system.Heading into the session, there was cause for optimism. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm
After Nancy Bunin did such a great job of analyzing Texas' sex-offender civil commitment legislation this spring, I asked her to author a guest post explaining the import of a recent, widely publicized ruling declaring the program unconstitutional and releasing the first Texas sex offender ever from civil commitment restrictions. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 11:56 am
The chairman compared Crockett's situation to Jones County, which built a speculative prison and contracted with a private firm hoping to secure adult TDCJ inmates to fill it. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 1:18 am
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES ---------------------- . --------------------- JAMES LEE CLARK DENTON COUNTY CRIMINAL CASE No. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 10:47 am
(It involves an inmate suing TDCJ after failing to get relief in an internal grievance procedure.) [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 7:11 am
According to TDCJ, "Without intervention, children of incarcerated parents are six to eight times more likely to become involved in a criminal lifestyle. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 1:23 am
Jay Kimbrough came in and fired dozens of people who had nothing to do with the agency's scandals, then under Ed Owens TDCJ cronies filled high-paying management jobs and newly created bureaucratic positions, while front-line employees worked double shifts and suffered retaliation for complaining about unsafe work conditions. [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 11:44 am
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible (please include José MedellÃÂn's prisoner identification number, TDCJ # 999134): - expressing sympathy for the relatives of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, and explaining that you are not seeking to excuse the manner of their deaths or to downplay the suffering caused; - expressing concern that the violation by Texas authorities of its duty to inform… [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 1:25 am
I predict those who don't will find themselves in a year or three defending their inaction with TDCJ's probems - which frankly dwarf those at TYC - when they finally begin to surface more prominently in the MSM. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 10:35 am
With apologies in advance for the length of this post, here's why:According to the HB 8 fiscal note, "For fiscal year 2006, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) received 633 offenders for the offenses of indecency with a child, and sexual performance of a child, where the offense was punishable as a felony of the second degree," approximately 537 of whom committed the offense against someone under 14. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 5:34 am
Liberty County's whole economy, in fact, is today based on incarceration, with four TDCJ units in the county including one privately run facility. [read post]
3 May 2010, 3:49 am
Re-entry Court: This court deals with drug and alcohol users who have agreed (either as a term and condition of their probation or as the result of a probation modification) to enter either a county rehabilitation program or SAFP (TDCJ.) [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 7:54 am
"I'd estimate about half the 300+ attendees were somehow affiliated with prison ministries and the faith community, and indeed prison ministry activists were the first people I ever heard speak of restorative justice, most prominently Emmett Solomon, the former TDCJ prison chaplain who runs the Restorative Justice Ministries Network in Huntsville.So when Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle told the audience, "Don't take restorative justice to church," you… [read post]
