tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post7533009210784784780..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ chief, family had 24-7 security detail, says The BackgateGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3203461693839031692013-08-21T17:26:00.825-05:002013-08-21T17:26:00.825-05:00Does my browser have an echo, or does this person ...Does my browser have an echo, or does this person just like to drive his message home???<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-40240104520866243512013-08-19T21:06:04.158-05:002013-08-19T21:06:04.158-05:00This should not surprise anyone. This is an agenc...This should not surprise anyone. This is an agency that the chairman broke the law by trying to get his sister-in-law a job on the board and she falsified official documents without any repercussions at all. Now he authorizes a private home security system to be placed in a home the state does not own at tax payers cost. When the home is sold who keeps the profits from the sale? Tax payers? I thought this would be consider fraud or thief of government funds. There are plenty of people in TDCJ's prisons for this same behavior. The ACA is as corrupted as they come. Useless! Another waste of tax payers dollars It is long over due to fire both these people!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29198064041045938422013-08-18T17:39:46.045-05:002013-08-18T17:39:46.045-05:00The Standards Committee has many members who do no...The Standards Committee has many members who do not rubber stamp. I have observed many of these meetings where opposing opinions were stated very clearly and publically. The ACA does stand for promulgating national standards and is involved with helping to improving international standards as well. You need to visit more facilities and to observe the many positive changes the Standards Committee implements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-59930021292597123122013-08-18T17:39:33.951-05:002013-08-18T17:39:33.951-05:00The Standards Committee has many members who do no...The Standards Committee has many members who do not rubber stamp. I have observed many of these meetings where opposing opinions were stated very clearly and publically. The ACA does stand for promulgating national standards and is involved with helping to improving international standards as well. You need to visit more facilities and to observe the many positive changes the Standards Committee implements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38676125711514839032013-08-18T17:39:18.101-05:002013-08-18T17:39:18.101-05:00The Standards Committee has many members who do no...The Standards Committee has many members who do not rubber stamp. I have observed many of these meetings where opposing opinions were stated very clearly and publically. The ACA does stand for promulgating national standards and is involved with helping to improving international standards as well. You need to visit more facilities and to observe the many positive changes the Standards Committee implements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-57471973104679841882013-08-18T08:45:24.905-05:002013-08-18T08:45:24.905-05:00On August 9, 2013, the American Correctional Assoc...On August 9, 2013, the American Correctional Association held a Standards Committee meeting in Prince George’s County Maryland. While browsing the ACA website I discovered a curious fact: Brad Livingston, Executive Director of the TDCJ, which currently has numerous lawsuits pending against it, is the Chairman of Standards Committee.<br /> <br />One might think that creates a conflict of interest-- to allow prison officials to chair the ACA Standards Committee. The ACA creates “standards” that the prisons they accredit must be in compliance with. Texas taxpayers have shelled out hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to have TDCJ prison units accredited by the ACA. Accreditation is supposed to ensure that prison facilities are in step with the U.S. Constitution and current case law, but how can we trust the ACA to meet that obligation when it allows prison officials to dictate which standards they have to meet? <br /> <br />The following was taken from the ACA website:<br /> <br />ACA Executive Director James A. Gondles welcomed the members of the Committee. Mr.<br />Gondles also thanked the departing members for their dedication to the Committee. Mr. Gondles<br />introduced Commissioner Epps as the incoming President of ACA and Texas Department of<br />Criminal Justice Executive Director Brad Livingston as the new Chair of the Standards<br />Committee.<br /><br />Most people think of the ACA as a sort of “watchdog” over prisons, but in fact they’re a pack of foxes watching the henhouse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com