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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Correctional officer shortages ]
| Committee: | House Corrections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Corrections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Alternatives to incarceration | Correctional officer shortages | Court costs and fees | Criminal justice | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Drug rehabilitation programs | Fines | Inmate health | Inmate rehabilitation | Inmates | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison reform | Probation | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 c817 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [40 pages File size: 255 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study community supervision caseloads, the effect of officer-to-offender ratios and the impact of caseload reductions on revocations and incarceration costs to the state. | |
| 2. | Study the quality and availability of residential facilities and the potential cost savings of enhanced residential sentencing alternatives to long-term incarceration. | |
| 3. | Review the fees assessed on adult offenders and their impacts on community supervision and parole. Consider offenders' abilities to pay supervision fees and any impact on revocations of parole. | |
| 4. | Study the delivery of healthcare within the Texas prison system, including the number and types of healthcare practitioners needed, the recruitment and retention of those practitioners, management of chronic diseases, and the use of telemedicine and other technologies. | |
| 5. | Actively monitor the agencies under the committee's oversight jurisdiction. Specifically monitor the implementation of staffing and training programs at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and their effects on the safety of both inmates and staff. | |
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Charge 3 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 78th Legislature : charge three / Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. | |
| Subjects: | Correctional officer shortages | Correctional officers | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Good-conduct time | Inmate classification | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 c868 3 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [28 pages File size: 1,115 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Monitor the implementation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's revised inmate classification system; monitor TDCJ employee recruitment and retention efforts; review the good conduct time credit system used by TDCJ; and recommend changes, if any, needed in these areas. | |
| Committee: | House Law Enforcement | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Law Enforcement, Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature : to the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 70th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Correctional officer shortages | Correctional officers | Corrections, Texas Department of | Good-conduct time | Juvenile crime | Mentally disabled inmates | Mentally Retarded Offender Program | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison construction | Privately-operated prisons | Ruiz lawsuit | State employee turnover | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 l41 | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View report [63 pages File size: 2,201 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study alternative means of meeting the program needs of the mentally handicapped offenders incarcerated in Texas prisons in conjunction with the Criminal Justice Policy Council. | |
| 2. | Study the problem of morale and employee turnover at the Department of Corrections and the fiscal impact of this situation on the State. | |
| 3. | Conduct monthly monitoring of the Department of Corrections construction division including new construction and renovation contracts for Ruiz litigation; oversight of contract award process; identification and reporting of cost-overruns and inconsistencies in management reporting of projects. | |
| 4. | Study the feasibility of private corrections systems in meeting the criminal justice needs of Texas including an analysis of the financial incentives for private investors in relation to the legal liability for the State and an analysis of private corrections products for practicality and cost effectiveness, in conjunction with the Appropriations Committee. | |
| 5. | Study the impact of the Ruiz settlement on production and harvesting of Department of Corrections agriculture crops. | |
| 6. | Monitor the percentage of crime committed in Texas that is attributed to juveniles. | |
| 7. | Study the impact of flat time on the violence and work stoppage at the Department of Corrections in conjunction with the percentage of inmates serving flat time sentences. | |
| Committee: | House Prison System (Prison Guard Shortage), Special | |
| Title: | Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of committee appointed to investigate conditions in the state penitentiary system | |
| Subjects: | Correctional officer salaries | Correctional officer shortages | Prison escapes | Prison farms | | |
| Library Call Number: | H.J. of Tex., 48th Leg. R.S. 1720 (1943) | |
| Session: | 48th R.S. (1943) | |
| Online version: | View report [4 pages File size: 146 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Investigate the shortage of prison guards * | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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