Legislative session like a new day for state employees
Two years ago state agencies experienced workforce reductions when lawmakers were forced to cut spending in the face of a $10 billion budget shortfall. Approximately 1,700 TDCJ positions were eliminated and, needless to say, no employee pay raises were authorized.
As summertime sizzles in Texas, so do meats put on the pit by TDCJ prison employees who on their days off trade in their uniforms for aprons, their handcuffs for hand mitts, and their pepper spray for, well, pepper.
Good health exercised through Texas Roundup Challenge participation
Each and every day, TDCJ Human Resources Employment Section Director Ken Johnson does something he doesn’t enjoy but steadfastly won’t go without doing. He runs
Two years ago state agencies experienced workforce reductions when lawmakers were forced to cut spending in the face of a $10 billion budget shortfall. Approximately 1,700 TDCJ positions were eliminated and, needless to say, no employee pay raises were authorized.
As summertime sizzles in Texas, so do meats put on the pit by TDCJ prison employees who on their days off trade in their uniforms for aprons, their handcuffs for hand mitts, and their pepper spray for, well, pepper. 
Each and every day, TDCJ Human Resources Employment Section Director Ken Johnson does something he doesn’t enjoy but steadfastly won’t go without doing. He runs