For inquires regarding community-based programs, services and facilities: (512) 424-6700
For inquires regarding state institutions, programs, services and facilities: (512) 424-6130
Useful Organizations
Youth Justice
Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD)
TJJD – Office of the Independent Ombudsman
Phone: (855) 468-7330 [toll-free]
Phone: (512) 927-8185 [Austin]
TJJD – Public Information Coordinator
For inquiries regarding information subject to open records: (512) 424-6434
TJJD – Youth/Parent Inquiries
Phone: (512) 424-6194
Defense & Innocence
State Bar of Texas – Client-Attorney Assistance Program [to resolve a problem with your lawyer]
Phone: (800) 932-1900
Texas Center for Actual Innocence
Texas Indigent Defense Commission
Phone: (866) 499-0656 [toll-free]
Phone: (512) 936-6994 [Austin]
Texas Innocence Network
Texas Public Defender Offices and Managed Assigned Council Programs
Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA)
To apply for services or to refer clients to TRLA: (888) 988-9996 [toll-free]
Map of 22 offices throughout Texas, with linked phone numbers
Thurgood Marshall School of Law Innocence Project
Phone: (713) 313-1139
Diversions, Probation & Treatment
Confinement & Reentry
TDCJ – Offender Status Line
Phone: (800) 535-0283 [free only for calls made in Texas]
Phone: (512) 406-5200 [Austin]
Phone: (936) 295-6371 [Huntsville]
Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments (TCOOMMI)
Phone: (512) 406-5406 / (512) 465-5100
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