Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Grits for Breakfast

Criminal Law

: Grits for Breakfast

TDCJ finds spare money during budget crunch for drug testing employees

My only question about this latest move by TDCJ: "What will you cut in the budget to pay for drug testing employees?" Mike Ward reports in the Statesman today that:In a push to bolster security and curb contraband in Texas' massive prison system, officials for the first time plan to order random drug tests for a majority of the state's 41,000 corrections employees including all guards and parole officers.Bryan Collier, deputy director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Thursday that the policy to be unveiled next week is designed to raise staffing standards inside Texas' 112 state prisons. ...The drug testing "will cover a majority of the agency's employees," Collier said. "Any of us who are in this business, if people are doing drugs, we don't want them working in the institutions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).