tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5869014593893078295..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ budget requests less money than needed to meet 'minimum standards'Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-72113766369903982952018-08-31T01:09:35.608-05:002018-08-31T01:09:35.608-05:00
Minimum standards? Whatever happened to TDCJ #00...<br />Minimum standards? Whatever happened to TDCJ #00864645. the man at Skyview who was repeatedly tortured on the bus that drove him back and forth between the Galveston prison hospital and Skyview prison in Rusk? Did the Civil Rights squad in the Dallas FBI office ever decide to pursue the matter? The prisoner is now in El Paso and has qualified for nursing home level care under the federal PACE program administered by Medicare and Medicaid. I am told that many pictures of the tortured man were sent to people on Capitol Hill in the Senate and House Judiciary and Appropriations committees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39838052689386878232018-08-26T04:57:45.433-05:002018-08-26T04:57:45.433-05:00Call me cynical, but I don't see it as much of...Call me cynical, but I don't see it as much of a gamble. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was stacked by W with justices who protect Texas from inconvenient technicalities like the Constitution of the United States. Indigent prisoners are all but barred from filing pro se. And there's very few lawyers in Texas willing to take on the TDCJ in court. Go figure, there's no gamble when the dice are loaded like this.Steven Michael Seyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07809935502307219692noreply@blogger.com