Texas Department of Corrections

The Texas Department of Corrections, which is officially known as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, is currently run by executive director Brad Livingston and Chairman Oliver J. Bell. The Texas Department of Corrections currently employs over 40,000 individuals in criminal justice related positions.

The Texas Department of Corrections is one of the world's largest criminal justice systems, with over 650000 offenders just on parole in 2009. The budget for the Texas Department of Corrections in 2009 was close to $3 billion. The Texas Department of Corrections contains 51 state prisons along with a number of other facilities for inmates, including medical facilities, transfer facilities, state jail facilities, geriatric facilities, and psychiatric facilities.

The Texas Department of Corrections offers a number of programs for inmates within the system, including programs at the Windham School District. The programs at the Windham School District for inmates are educational programs, designed to help adult inmates to become more educated in order to decrease recidivism and also help those inmates to become better adapted for life in the community.

The Windham School District program of the Texas Department of Corrections offers up vocational and academic programs, and in the 2008-2009 year there were close to 80,000 inmates enrolled in the program from the jail system of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Department of Corrections also offers such programs as a community supervision program, which is designed to help facilitate inmates in probationary positions.

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