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Texas Prisons' Blog: Infrastructure So Shot, the UN Condemned TDCJ
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Saturday, December 5, 2015. Infrastructure So Shot, the UN Condemned TDCJ. By Lance Lowry (AFSCME Huntsville). Huntsville, Texas - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice asked in their. Legislative Appropriation Request (LAR). For 2016 and 2017 an additional $60 million in operating expenses for their aging infrastructure, that includes many facilities over 75 years old. Maintenance deficiencies lead to health and safety concerns for TDCJ staff who are exposed to dangerous conditions such as exposure t...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: December 2015
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Saturday, December 5, 2015. Infrastructure So Shot, the UN Condemned TDCJ. By Lance Lowry (AFSCME Huntsville). Huntsville, Texas - The Texas Department of Criminal Justice asked in their. Legislative Appropriation Request (LAR). For 2016 and 2017 an additional $60 million in operating expenses for their aging infrastructure, that includes many facilities over 75 years old. Maintenance deficiencies lead to health and safety concerns for TDCJ staff who are exposed to dangerous conditions such as exposure t...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: August 2016
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Texas Correctional Officers Seek Closure of Private Prisons. Huntsville, Texas – Last week the U.S. Justice Department announced it would be phasing out all of its private prison contracts in a move that mirrored the 2013 closure of two private prisons by the Texas legislature. Currently the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is facing a budgetary shortfall to its already cash strapped system after state leadership demanded a 4 percent cut. Compared to TDCJ's 26 percent.
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Texas Prisons' Blog: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. TDCJ Pay Raise Announced 8%. May 20, 2015. Austin, Texas - Tonight the Texas Legislature Conference Committee approved an 8% pay raise for all TDCJ Correctional Officers and Parole Officers. This pay increase would be effective on September 1, 2015 if approved by the full House, Senate, and Governor. Lance Lowry President of the Huntsville AFSCME Texas Correctional Employees stated "the pay raise is the largest seen and is a move in the right direction to address staffing issues&...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: February 2016
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Thursday, February 25, 2016. Two Huntsville TDCJ Units Maybe Relocated. February 25, 2016. Huntsville, Texas - On December 4, 2015 President Obama signed the five-year $305 billion. Into law allowing for the funding of the proposed Gulf Coast Strategic Highway System, also known as Interstate 14. The new Interstate will connect Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas and Fort Polk in Leesville, Louisiana using mostly US 190 existing easement. Livingston, and Woodville, to the logical terminus of. Both prison facilit...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: TDCJ Serious Incident Report Released on Officer Homicide
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Friday, March 4, 2016. TDCJ Serious Incident Report Released on Officer Homicide. New Boston - Today the Texas Department of Criminal Justice publicly released the Serious Incident Review (SIR) on the murder of Officer Timothy Davison at the Telford Unit. Click here to read the Serious Incident Review. Here are several things the report indicated:. At the time of the incident the Telford Unit was 97 officers short. With staffing levels at 430. Correctional officers out of 527. The second E POD rover assi...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: October 2014
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Lubbock Avalanche Investigates In Custody Deaths in Underfunded Prisons. October 15, 2014. Lubbock, Texas - Today the Lubbock Avalanche News. Released a report showing a high number of in custody deaths in Lubbock County and at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Montford Unit. Since 2005 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice had over 1,821 in custody deaths according to a report from the Texas Attorney Generals Office. Currently Texas correctional officers receive ...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: February 2015
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Friday, February 20, 2015. Correctional Employee Pay Raises Pushed at Appropriation Committee Meeting. Austin, Texas - Yesterday during the Texas Legislature Appropriations Select Committee on Article V Criminal Justice funding, members of the committee heard from agency directors and union officials about the need for a markup on the existing legislative budget to cover correctional employee raises. AFSCME Texas political action Director Joe Hamill testified before the committee that Texas correctional ...
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Texas Prisons' Blog: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on TDCJ Penwell Bus Crash, Damaged Guard Rail Possibly at Fault. January 29, 2015. According to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report released today a displaced guard rail and icy conditions maybe to blame for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus accident in Penwell, Texas that left 10 people dead. The report states:. A more detailed report will be released once the investigation is completed by the NTSB.
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Texas Prisons' Blog: 18 Texas Correctional Officers Disciplined in Inmate Death
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Thursday, February 18, 2016. 18 Texas Correctional Officers Disciplined in Inmate Death. By Terri Langford, The Texas Tribune. February 18, 2016. Editor's note: This story has been updated. Texas prison officials have recommended the firing of a supervisor at the Clements Unit and disciplinary actions against 17 others for failing to conduct required checks on a cell where an inmate was severely beaten. The inmate later died. Clark declined to say how long the assigned cell of inmates Alton Rodgers and J...
