According to the TDCJ Offender Orientation Handbook, Printed August 1997,  Chapter 2, page 57:  "It is the policy of the TDCJ to enable and encourage offenders, consistent with security and classification restraints, to have visits with family members and friends."
This policy only applies if you are not an ex-employee.  You can be an ex-
inmate, on parole, on probation, or have met the inmate through
correspondence.  TDCJ, does not recognize marriages of inmates to ex-
employees, although the state of Texas does.
I am an ex-employee and married to an inmate.  I met my husband while working for TDCJ-ID.  I left the prison system on my own with no misconduct.  Later, I began a relationship and married this man.
I was allowed to visit my husband for 22 months.  Almost every visit we were harassed and discriminated against.  I had not only married an inmate, I had married a man that was of another race, very taboo in Texas!   We were not allowed the same privileges afforded others in visitation.  My daughter at times was not allowed to sit with the other children, we had to go by rules that were made up each week at visitation, not the written rules. 
My husband had something in his life that meant the world to him - a wife, 2 stepchildren, and a future to look forward to.  A future that does not involve crime, but a loving family.   Well, TDCJ couldn't have an inmate that was rehabilitating.
My husband and I always went through the proper channels within the prison system.   My husband had not had a major case in almost 3 years.  That is until Oct. Of 1998.   When the children and I came to visit, we were harassed,  as soon as my husband came out, a female officer began talking very degrading to him.  As his wife and a free citizen, I told her I did not appreciate the way we were being talked to.  She began to threaten to terminate our visit.   She succeeded to have our visit terminated and my name removed from my husband's visitor list.  I am no longer allowed to see my husband.  He was locked in solitary for 15 days, his class was reduced, he lost 1 year of good time, and his custody level was raised.  He is now on a building where there are riots and they are locked down much of the time.   We face the possibility of not seeing each other for a minimum of   8 YEARS ! ! !

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
     IS NOT ANSWERABLE TO ANYONE ! ! !
                They are self governing and do as they please.

They are not interested in rehabilitation of inmates.  I am considered a
security breech because I am an ex-employee.  What makes me a security breech?
I have read the some of the rule books and know the rules I am supposed to follow.  I have reported problems during visitation, and as I was told from the Region 5 Director's office, since I reported violations of the rules by the officers this has made me a problem.

Where is the R in rehabilitation in Texas?