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21 Jan 2007, 11:41 am
" The last verse is the one that started rattling around my head after I saw the TDCJ bobble head - you probably remember it, so sing along: On a Monday, my Momma come and see me. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 10:29 am
The 24-Hour Family Hotline Number Is: 936-437-6127 Updated information will appear on the TDCJ website as additional information becomes available. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 9:40 am
More than 15 percent of the inmate population has been found to have a mental illness, and some of them refuse to take their psychotropic medications in the summer, because the drugs can make them heat intolerant, leading to assaults on other inmates and correctional officers.Regular readers may recall that this blog broke the story of TDCJ's pigs getting air conditioning while prisoners and COs sweated through the summer. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
If legislators want a smaller, rational, God forbid, conservative prison budget, they cannot look to TDCJ for suggestions on how to accomplish it. [read post]
11 Nov 2022, 4:10 am
TDCJ has not responded by enacting any formal policy guaranteeing religious expression in the execution chamber. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 10:07 am
Glancing quickly through it, I did see a couple of interesting items I didn't know.Extra capacity at TDCJ? [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 1:36 am
Typically, summertime worsens understaffing at Texas prisons with the number of unfilled guard slots rising steadily until the weather cools.This year the recession and aggressive TDCJ recruiting efforts have cut significantly into that staffing shortfall for the first time in many years, but it's an open question how many of those rookie guards will still stay on the job after they've endured a few 108 degree days in August.UPDATE: The AP story from the Dallas paper was actually… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 8:01 pm
Clark said the decision to change the protocol came because the state's supply of one of the other drugs that had been used in the protocol — pancuronium bromide — had expired and TDCJ was unable to obtain more. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 10:57 am
Related posts are in the TDCJ index. [read post]
14 Oct 2017, 6:59 am
" Grits had not previously seen flooding reports from those units and, during our last podcast, had credited TDCJ for moving prisoners in other units which flooded. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 12:37 pm
But I asked her to follow up with TDCJ's PREA Compliance division to make sure. [read post]
18 May 2012, 7:10 am
Earlier coverage of TDCJ's lethal injection stock begins at the link. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 10:44 am
At a House Appropriations Committee meeting today, House Corrections Chairman Jim McReynolds asked TDCJ chief Brad Livingston if private prison-contracts up for renewal might increase their rates and increase costs for the state.Livingston said that was possible, since contracts covering the 12,000 or so private beds for which TDCJ contracts are 5-7 years old. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 11:46 pm
I have personally seen the trainers at the TDCJ academy push people through that have failed portions of the course. [read post]
4 May 2014, 11:50 am
Livingston, (SD TX, April 30, 2014), the court held that(a) [Texas Department of Criminal Justice] current Administrative Directive 7.30 ... which embodies TDCJ’s policy that inmates may not gather in groups of more than four for religious services unless a TDCJ staff member or outside volunteer is available to provide “direct supervision,” is an ongoing violation of the Muslim inmates’ federal rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized… [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 4:16 pm
Background checks before his hiring revealed no prior criminal history, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.I'd read about these crimes and remember the alleged rapist being caught, but I hadn't realized until this story that the fellow was a TDCJ employee, much less that he'd previously worked at TYC before the scandals there broke in 2007. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 3:57 am
In the wake of the high profile arrests of two TDCJ prison guards for an inmate assault and coverup, a prison guards' blog lets us know TDCJ staff are receiving internal discipline than ever before. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 8:16 am
Before last session, TDCJ only had 500 treatment beds in its entire prison system. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 6:12 pm
"The project with the TDCJ is unprecedented. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 2:44 pm
You can find these policies in Chapter 3 of TDCJ’s Offender Orientation Handbook. [read post]
