tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5077479445907886298..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Chronicling compliance, oversight cuts at TDCJGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-37301953871501749012011-10-25T11:53:41.129-05:002011-10-25T11:53:41.129-05:00The value and importance of auditors, monitors, or...The value and importance of auditors, monitors, or overseers in the prison system is made plain by the administration's willingness axe them. I spent 40 consecutive years inside, during that time working as a clerk in several different departments. Not once did I see a department suffer any real grief because of an audit gone bad. For example, in the kitchen when the Pest Control people inspected us, we always knew in advance that they were coming. The kitchen Captain would have the place tidied up, and the actual inspection would be a ho-hum walk-through affair. Nurseypooh expressed a lot of anxiety over audits...Can she remember a time when anyone was seriously sanctioned, fined, or fired because of a bad one? I think not. The inspectors from the O.I.G.'s office are a joke, with the last laugh on Texas taxpayers, who pay their salaries. They're good ol' boy croonies, most of whom came up through the pecking order, or are related to someone who did. Within the TDCJ-ID, Nepotism rules.Con-Carenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3437808056115141222011-10-24T19:47:11.948-05:002011-10-24T19:47:11.948-05:00Honestly for as long as I have been dealing with T...Honestly for as long as I have been dealing with TDCJ the ombudsman office will call the unit and they will deny everything and that is the end of it. The OIG has been known to send an investigator to a unit where their spouse works, so how can there be a fair investigation after that. Their compliance people give the fox guarding the hen house a whole new meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3363513388376492282011-10-23T19:56:28.687-05:002011-10-23T19:56:28.687-05:00We think that they are going to do the same thing ...We think that they are going to do the same thing in TYC. They have already gotten rid of 2 investigators that we know of due to lay offs. There will be more expected during the merger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-23420340657727104202011-10-23T19:41:01.098-05:002011-10-23T19:41:01.098-05:00We get audited every time we turn around by someon...We get audited every time we turn around by someone, all kinds of different agencies. At least once a month. 2 weeks ago they stayed for 4 days. I feel were overaudited as it is. Just my opinion.<br /><br />We usually fair ok but if we didn't we could get in big trouble and not be acredited.Nurseypoohnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-43606729200993199802011-10-23T14:49:53.970-05:002011-10-23T14:49:53.970-05:00Whitmire receives his share of money from the priv...Whitmire receives his share of money from the private prison industry. What's new about politicians talking from both sides of their mouths?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-26073273748880661532011-10-23T08:02:00.364-05:002011-10-23T08:02:00.364-05:00The Lege really knows nothing about TDCJ. That is ...The Lege really knows nothing about TDCJ. That is obvious every time Sen. Whitmire starts shouting about the latest TDCJ thing he doesn't like - which usually have been ticking along for years such as a DR inmate's last meal request. Then he blows things out of all proportion and demands TDCJ "do something". If he made some real effort to understand the system he and his fellow politicians have created instead of jumping on people just because he didn't have all the facts, perhaps he would start working with TDCJ and inmate families instead of against them all the time, and he wouldn't look quite such an idiot for not knowing in the first place.<br /><br />However, if the Lege remove the people doing the watching, the Lege can then later say "we didn't know" with straighter faces.sunray's wenchhttp://lookingforthecabinbythelake.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com