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20 Jan 2013, 8:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“It’s taken us a while to move those operations,” said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 7:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
(Such a program exists for inmates released receiving HIV medications, but not for the mentally ill.)Another 469 individuals during FY 2011 were paroled directly from ad-seg, Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) executive director Brad Livingston told the committee. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 6:06 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Brad Pitt got his start at Central Casting. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 6:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
About 80% of new recruits drop out, so TDCJ must hire and train five newbies to end up with one, fully trained, more experienced CO down the line.In the near term, TDCJ plans to institute recruiting bonuses to hire more staff, though heaven knows where the money will come from given the agency's already overstrapped budget:to ease the chronic staffing shortages at Connally and six other state prisons, Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director, announced a… [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 4:35 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Brad Dushanes at Dartmouth College studies faceblindness. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 5:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"We have very well-developed plans on what this new regional care network would look like and are moving forward to whatever transition may be necessary," said Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 1:21 pm by Bruce Carton
Whitmire promptly shot off a letter to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, stating that it was "extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," and that if the practice wasn't stopped immediately he would introduce legislation to end it. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:16 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
David Callender, president of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston that provides the prison health care, said in a Wednesday letter to Brad Livingston, head of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which operates the state's 111-prison system, that without adequate funding, "it is our intent to cease the delivery of correctional health services. [read post]
28 Sep 2011, 11:47 pm by Jeff Gamso
.* * * * *"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," sniffed Whitmire in a terse Thursday letter to prisons chief Brad Livingston. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 8:00 am by Jeralyn
John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wrote in a letter to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 7:45 am by Steve Hall
"They will receive the same meal served to other offenders" in the prison, said Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:32 pm by Nathan Koppel
Whitmire wrote a letter Thursday to Brad Livingston, the executive Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which oversees state prisons, citing the Brewer case and calling for an immediate end to the last-meal ritual. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, explained: "The men who complete this four-year program will be a powerful voice to other inmates seeking to get their lives back on track, and will aid us in successfully reintegrating these inmates back into society." [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, explained: "The men who complete this four-year program will be a powerful voice to other inmates seeking to get their lives back on track, and will aid us in successfully reintegrating these inmates back into society. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" TDCJ chief Brad Livingston told the committee that any savings comes because private vendors pay their staff less money and have a less favorable benefit package than state employees.So essentially it'd be the deputies whose ox gets gored under a privatization scheme in Harris County, assuming there's any savings to be had at all. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Brad Livingston said the amendment would cause a "one-time spike in number of offenders who are paroled and ready for ICE custody," after which those paroles would presumably be expedited. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 7:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas prison chief Brad Livingston has responded by calling for a test of cell-phone jamming technology, however the Attorney General has already told the agency that installing jammers on a permanent basis would require a change in federal communications law first enacted in the 1930s. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 8:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
However, TDCJ did not view this as an option and it was not in the proposed budget cuts listed by [TDCJ Executive Director Brad] Livingston. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 7:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I turned on the House Appropriations Committee hearing first thing this morning to listen to exceedingly brief presentations from the Legislative Budget Board and TDCJ chief Brad Livingston about the prison system. [read post]