Board of Criminal Justice minutes and meeting files 1881-1885, 1900-2008

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Board of Criminal Justice minutes and meeting files, 1881-1885, 1900-2008

Board of Criminal Justice minutes and meeting files 1881-1885, 1900-2008

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities that contract with TDCJ. The agency also provides funding and certain oversight of community supervision and is responsible for the supervision of offenders released from prison on parole or mandatory supervision. These are minutes and meeting files of the various prison boards, dating from 1881 to 1885, and 1900 to 2008. Minutes are present for the Texas State Penitentiary Board, Texas Board of Prison Commissioners, Texas Prison Board, Texas Board of Corrections, and the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. Some of the minutes and meeting files contain letters; copies of leases, easements, or contracts considered by the board; statistical reports on the inmate population; committee reports; reports by the executive director and division directors; board policies; and rules and regulations. The minutes also contain resolutions by the board, generally regarding the death of board members, prison officials, or citizens connected to the prison system. Also present are minutes of the Board's Substance Abuse Subcommittee for 1991-1992. Subjects of board meetings include: the financial status of the prisons, accounts approvals, legislative committee investigations, rules and regulations, appointments, purchasing, reinstatement of guards and other personnel changes, real estate issues, leasing of convict labor, conveying convicts to the penitentiaries, conditions at the prisons and prison farms, authorizing whipping of specific inmates, deaths of inmates, escapes of inmates, transferring inmates between prison units, inmate complaints, inmate educational needs (including high school, college, and vocational education), inmate recreational needs (including books, films, and athletic events such as boxing, baseball, and the Texas Prison Rodeo), constructing new units, improving existing units, agricultural production, prison industries, health and sanitation conditions of the inmates, incidents in prison units of inmates refusing to eat or work, and riots.

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