The Texas Legislature should give great weight to a series of recommendations aimed at improving the Texas Department of ...

said the commission’s recommendations underline “what kind of facilities make sense” for the state to continue having and implementing them would be a step toward more humane prisons. TDCJ ...

This allowed us to rethink how to best protect privacy while continuing to provide transparency on who is held in Texas prisons and why. For those seeking information in the meantime, TDCJ ...

and cellphones found in TDCJ facilities has increased significantly,” the September 2023 examination of TDCJ’s operations by the report noted. Texas prisons, it said, “are more dangerous now ...