The agency’s mission is to “provide public safety, promote positive change in offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society and assist victims of crime.” It is a large agency tasked with many things including housing, educating and training inmates; they work with various state agencies to meet these requirements.
The agency lists goals in the 2023-27 strategic plan as:
- Probation supervision and community diversions to incarceration
- Custody, care and management of incarcerated inmates
- Rehabilitation and re-entry programs
- Parole supervision and revocation diversions
- Victim services
Data is used for performance measurement in relation to inmate census numbers, health-care statistics, facilities requests and productivity, among other metrics such as inmate education and training.
The agency has the potential budget for body-worn cameras, computer hardware and software, and a data center consolidation in 2024 and 2025.
Budget: The state’s proposed budget shows a total of $3.9 billion proposed for the department; these monies include general revenue, federal funding and other revenue streams. The 2022 budget was approximately $3.4 billion with an estimated IT budget of $128.3 million, according to Industry Navigator.*
Leadership: Bryan Collier is the executive director. Tina Clark is the director of the IT Division.
There were 28,554 reported full-time employees in 2022 with 167 IT positions, or six percent of its workforce. IT services comprise applications programming, network support, system and network operations, support services, information security, and agency communications.
*Industry Navigator is a product of e.Republic, which also produces Industry Insider — Texas.
