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9 Feb 2018, 12:24 pm
Since then, the number of executions have declined, while the annual number of suicides in TDCJ has hovered in the low 30s. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:35 pm
So I wanted to pull out a segment from our most recent Reasonably Suspicious podcast discussing the topic in more detail:Allegations by attorneys in the report that TDCJ interfered to prevent deployment of particular legal strategies should be investigated by the state bar or perhaps a legislative oversight committee, at a minimum. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 9:13 am
At the Dallas News, Lauren McGaughy has a story that reaches to the heart of problems at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, even if it's an aspect of the crisis state officials have been loathe to address: Low pay and poor working conditions, exacerbated by siting youth prisons in rural areas with limited labor pools, contribute to a nearly unmanageable situation where up to 40 percent of staff turn over every year.Now, Texas adult prisons have increased starting pay to stave off their own… [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 6:27 am
But coupled with moving troubled kids into TDCJ and uninformed comments by the new ED about raise-the-age proposals, Governor Abbott's change program still seems to this observer like it's off to a rocky start.RELATED: A couple of editorials out this week speak to the small-government strategy that, in this writer's opinion, the Governor should adopt, following Scott Walker's lead in Wisconsin, instead of doubling down on large youth prison facilities.Austin Statesman:… [read post]
31 Jan 2018, 7:34 am
But the corrections culture that produces these illicit relationships at TJJD and TDCJ continues to afford opportunities for predatory behavior. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 5:06 am
Topics this month include:Top StoriesBanned books in TDCJ (featuring Lauren McGaughy): Why Mein Kampf is okay but The Color Purple is banned.Alleged interference at State Counsel for Offenders: Did TDCJ board dictate defense strategies? [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 7:33 am
Looking at the most recent (2016) TDCJ Statistical Report, as of August 31, 2016, there were only 51 youths under age 18 housed in TDCJ (see p. 18 of the pdf; p. 8 of the document). [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 7:12 am
When the Gainesville stories first came out, Grits observed:These troubles mirror problems witnessed at the adult system, where sexual misconduct by staff at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a big source of federal Prison Rape Elimination Act violations. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 3:22 pm
Chief among those are allegations of direct interference by the TDCJ board in SCFO affairs.Wrote one attorney, "I was directed to withdraw from representing a client after the SCFO director returned from a TDCJ Board meeting in the summer of 2013. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 10:36 am
In a lot of ways, TDCJ has promulgated a stupid policy. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 4:24 am
TDCJ denies the problem, but the Texas Inmate Family Association identified a couple of dozen underheated units, notably including the Allred Unit near Wichita Falls. [read post]
17 Dec 2017, 7:32 am
A teacher at a TDCJ prison blames chronic understaffing for the circumstances that led to her rape. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 12:47 pm
And so now, at many of those locations, there aren't enough warm bodies to fill the positions.Closing units where staffing problems are most acute would make a lot of sense from TDCJ management perspective. [read post]
11 Nov 2017, 10:15 am
TDCJ initially did a good job of evacuating prison units in the hurricane's initial path, but when it went back out to sea and came aground again near Beaumont-Port Arthur, they weren't nearly as prepared and apparently just hunkered down. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 10:27 am
But the corrections culture that produces these illicit relationships at TJJD and TDCJ continues to afford opportunities for predatory behavior.So we're better at catching and punishing predators. [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]
22 Sep 2017, 2:56 pm
In Michigan, state prisons arrest visitors who arrive with outstanding traffic warrants, running their names and arresting them while they wait, the Marshall Project reported.Grits emailed Jason Clark, spokesperson at TDCJ, to ask if Texas prisons did something similar. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 10:43 am
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits readers' attention while mine is focused elsewhere:TDCJ is ending the use of solitary confinement as punishment, and the number of people in ad-seg overall continues to drop precipitously. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 6:20 am
After several months of working out the kinks in a soft launch, Just Liberty's Reasonably Suspicious podcast now is up and running on numerous platforms - iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:13 am
A whopping 63 percent of people convicted of violent offenses in TDCJ were in 2015 serving sentences longer than 10 years. [read post]
