tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post7561952173627218726..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: TDCJ needs 'Plan B' to rescue successful community corrections investmentsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25680841699640637032010-03-20T22:49:25.239-05:002010-03-20T22:49:25.239-05:00I liken the current situation in TDCJ as kind of l...I liken the current situation in TDCJ as kind of like when a toilet flushes and Brad Livingston is caught in the swirl!Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-38297816273401950322010-03-20T12:04:08.870-05:002010-03-20T12:04:08.870-05:00Brad Livingston isn't an idiot! He can grow hi...Brad Livingston isn't an idiot! He can grow his PRISON empire when CSCD's lose funding. Less probation officers means more prisoners.<br />Someone fire Brad, he is the end cause of more crime!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-50960822425810177222010-03-18T11:19:17.212-05:002010-03-18T11:19:17.212-05:00Anybody want to make a buck? Problem is Brad prob...Anybody want to make a buck? Problem is Brad probably wouldn't take the class.<br /><br />The National Institute of Corrections’ (NIC), Academy Division is seeking applications for the development of a competency based, blended modality training curriculum that will provide correctional executives with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to become more self-aware, ethical and value based, a strategic thinker, more organizationally influential, collaborative, team oriented, capable of setting effective organizational priorities, identifying a strategic vision and mission, and creating collaborative partnerships in the external environment.<br />Posted by Joshua Stengel at Agency News http://community.nicic.org/blogs/nic/archive/2010/03/17/QA11.aspxMarie Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-11534146763959414862010-03-18T09:29:21.718-05:002010-03-18T09:29:21.718-05:00Testimony is always "invited". Director...Testimony is always "invited". Directors may show up as they wish but those who testify most of the time are invited to testify by the CJAD Director. Those who do testify are either on the Legislative Committee of the Texas Probation Association or are from the larger departments. Other Directors do show up to lend support. Most Directors are in their home area having to do budgetary "mine field" work in order not to have to lay off employees due to the LBB and ERS short sighted funding errors. Brad Livingston is once again showing how little TDCJ cares for adult probation interests when he testifies that losses in probation are the way to go instead of losses in the prison system. I wonder how long Directors can keep the fires burning in their judicial districts with the internal sanction models designed to keep the prison populations down with TDCJ's continued prison mentality showing its' partiality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-79054480999002871002010-03-18T08:36:19.480-05:002010-03-18T08:36:19.480-05:00At least one or two others were there but didn'...At least one or two others were there but didn't testify. The room was full; I didn't know everybody.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-11384951137100859332010-03-18T08:20:43.907-05:002010-03-18T08:20:43.907-05:00Grits, do you know why so few CSCD directors showe...Grits, do you know why so few CSCD directors showed up for this meeting? Was the meeting open to any that wanted to attend?<br /><br />It seems at least directors from all the large departments should have been represented.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com