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An 8 page research that presents an examination of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and constitutes preliminary research pursuant to conducting a research study, the purpose of which will be to collect data from incarcerated prisoners pertaining to illicit drug use while in TDCJ facilities. This examination presents the statistics on TDCJ prisons; then, present a preliminary plan for conducting the indicated research; and close by describing the ethical issues involved with the collection of research using prison populations. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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while in TDCJ facilities. This examination will, first of all, present the statistics on TDCJ prisons; then, present a preliminary plan for conducting the indicated research; and close by describing
the ethical issues involved with the collection of research using prison populations. Statistics on TDCJ prison facilities. The Correction Institutions Division (CID) of the TDCJ, as of August
31, 2007, operated: 52 state prison facilities, three pre-release facilities, three psychiatric facilities, one Mentally Retarded Offender Program (MROP) facility, two medical facilities, 13 transfer facilities, 16 state jail facilities,
four temporary contract capacity facilities and five substance abuse felony punishment (SAFP) facilities (TDCJ 19). Additionally the Texas CID, at this time, operated five expansion cellblock facilities, as
well as a boot camps and work camps within several of these facilities (TDCJ 19). At the end of the 2007 fiscal year, there were "136,666 institutional offenders, 13,808 state
jail offenders, and 3,187 SAFP offenders for a total of 152,661 offenders incarcerated in TDCJ facilities" (TDCJ 19). As the TDCJ operates a large number of facilities, a listing
of all facilities, along with the number of inmates in each facility, would probably require the rest of the word count purchased for this research. Therefore, the writer/tutor selected the
first institution listed in regards to male offenders, which is the James V. Allred prison unit, located just outside of Wichita Falls, Texas. This facility, as of 4 May 2004,
has a maximum capacity of 3,681 inmates, the senior warden is Danny R. Horton and it employs 1,034 employees (Allred). The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) indicates that Texas
prisons now house 163,193 inmates and that Texas now has 738,000 adults under correction supervision, which is the total number who are being overseen via "prison, jails, probation and parole"
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