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29 Jun, 2008 7:57 am
... the construction of the jail annex and its operations, which will spare taxpayers additional costs. A nonprofit organization,
Montgomery County Jail Financing Corp., was formed to fund
the $42 million project. Commissioners make up the members of the corporation ... operations at the annex. A few years ago, commissioners considered contracting with The GEO Group to
operate the existing jail, or at least its 400-bed wing that opened in 2005. However, Sheriff Tommy Gage developed a plan that enabled ...
6 Jul, 2007 2:07 am
Twenty months ago I authored a post entitled "Grits' best practices to reduce county jail
overcrowding," which to this day is one of the items most often hit via ... up a disproportionate number of offenders and also take up a disproportionate amount of county resources. Day reporting center in lieu of incarceration For #12 let's look ... Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, Collin, Denton, Fort Bend,
Cameron, Nueces, Montgomery, Jefferson, Galveston, Williamson, Lubbock, Brazoria, Bell, and McLennan ...
25 Mar, 2008 11:15 am
Alabama attorney general rules that Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money of $1.75 a day after feeding inmates at county
jails. Tuesday, March 25, 2008 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer MONTGOMERY - Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money...
16 Sep, 2008 6:51 am
Recently, an inmate at the Duval County Jail in Jacksonville was forced to cut his hair against his
wishes. Jagmohan Singh Ahuja claims having his hair cut is against his religious views. Ahuja is a Sikh and they believe that men ... soon as a defendant pleas to a charge and is
sentenced or is found guilty and sentenced, their hair is cut and they are transferred to the Montgomery Correctional Center (also known as the
p-farm) on Lannie Road in Jacksonville.
13 Nov, 2007 5:24 am
... . After setting up its newshook as a shortage of inmate laborers (as opposed to, say, the failure of the county to properly staff its
programs), the article further down we find John Wiley ... opening 1,200 in 2009; Montgomery County
readying 1,000 for 2008 and Travis County constructing 1,200 for 2009. Most of those are among the state' ... "local" and "parochial" coverage,
and this article crossed that line. If the Henderson county jail were a private prison company and
this anonymous writer had been ...
8 Oct, 2008 7:15 pm
... Leaf-Chronicle Two former Montgomery County Sheriff's Office employees settled their cases in
Judge Mike R. Jones on charges that they both engaged in sexual conduct with jail inmates. Santiago Alcantara, 37, and Kevin Vance, 30, are
both charged with sexual contact ... inmate. Vance and Alcantara were indicted in the June term of grand jury following an internal investigation by the Montgomery County Sheriff's... To see the rest of the article, visit the Sex Offender Issues blog.
24 Jan 1:55 am
... the execution: Larry Ray Swearingen has lived on Texas death row for eight years, convicted of the rape-murder of a Montgomery
County coed in 1998. He is scheduled for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville next Tuesday, despite the fact that ... was discovered 10
years ago on Jan. 2, nearly a month after her disappearance from the Montgomery College campus in Conroe. However, Swearingen was jailed
on traffic warrants three days after the woman went missing. Although prosecutors theorized that ...
30 Nov, 2007 8:26 am
... for which county jail deserves the appellation "worst hellhole" in Texas. Let 'em know which
county jail you think is worst. (My guess: Dallas will be hard to beat.) Drug court trend expanding
across Texas The Texas Observer has a feature interviewing drug court judges in Travis, Dallas, Nueces and Montgomery Counties. TYC
pepper spray policy temporarily changed At least until next week when a new policy comes before a public hearing on Monday, the Texas Youth Commission has agreed to a ...
5 Mar, 2008 2:20 pm
... interested in house arrest. In order to get into the house arrest program in Bucks County, you must first be screened and approved through
an interview process with the Bucks ... arrest program. There are many, many rules to house arrest in Bucks County. It is really like being in
jail, but it is within the confines of your own home. In fact, the Bucks ... , PA, and other Bucks County courts. We handle DUI cases in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery County, PA. We are located just ...
15 Nov, 2007 11:27 am
... Burnett Jr., now 15 and the youngest inmate ever housed in the county jail. In imposing the
lengthy sentence -- Burnett will be ineligible for parole until the year 2058, when he is 66 -- Wiesman rejected confining Burnett in a juvenile offender program in Montgomery City, Mo., where Burnett could have gotten a chance at probation at the age of 21. Testimony this morning disclosed that Burnett had blamed, in
part, the ...
10 Sep 9:25 am
... Williamson, 43, was treated and immediately transported to Troy Regional Medical Center. The severity of his injuries required hospital staff to airlift the man to Baptist South in
Montgomery. Police reports indicate that the accident was caused by the woman's intoxication. Perez was taken into custody and held in the Pike
County Jail following the accident. This is a serious situation for this woman. Being from out of ...
6 Nov, 2008 11:00 am
... headed to Media to visit family, was pronounced dead at the crash site at 2:30 a.m. Sept. 19. She died of cerebral and chest trauma. O'Neill's injuries were described as
non-life-threatening. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said O'Neill was "falling
down drunk" when she sped down the Blue Route in the wrong direction flashing her headlights at oncoming drivers. According to the article, Roisin O'Neill met friends just ...
26 Mar, 2007 10:02 pm
... , when the family court judge, Maxine Cohen Lando, told Sibley he'd face jail time if he did not ante up his long-overdue child support.
The ... . Seeing no progress, Lando held Sibley in contempt in November 2002 and sent him to jail in Miami-Dade County. "It was a way to brutalize me," says Sibley, who was imprisoned for more than two months. After ... , but by April, Sibley still hadn't budged. Lando
ordered him, once again, to jail. This time, Sibley's father bailed him out and paid $100,000 of his ...
11 Jul 1:12 am
... expected to house more than 100 criminal offenders awaiting trials or competency findings, will solve a major backlog. The Montgomery
County jail has hundreds of inmates awaiting mental health treatment. The nearest state forensic
mental hospital is more ... the Geo Group sought," July 6): The family of the late Gregorio de la Rosa Jr., killed by two inmates in 2001 in a jail facility then-operated and managed by Wackenhut in Raymondville under contract with the state, is seeking the sanctions from ...
3 Mar, 2008 9:31 pm
... in Montgomery County on Thursday. Morast is accused of intentionally subjecting a student to
mistreatment by allowing Montgomery County Jail inmates to
disrobe the student during a tour of the facility in February 2007, according to court records. The deputy, while performing his duties, was present and observing the incident and
restrained the male student, said Montgomery County District Attorney Michael McDougal. An associate
for Morast's attorney, Stephen Jackson, declined to comment ...
26 Jan, 2008 8:02 pm
View the article here 01/25/2008 CONROE -- A Montgomery County sheriff's deputy lost his job and is
facing criminal charges, accused of forcefully ... reported Friday. The former deputy was working a second job at a private school in Conroe when the Montgomery County District Attorney said the deputy tried to scare the boy into better ... ground and handcuffed
him. Investigators said that Morast took the boy to the Montgomery County jail and allowed inmates to order the boy to strip naked and applied ...
11 Jun, 2008 8:43 pm
View the article here 06/11/2008 A man who was fired from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in
May has been criminally charged with sexual contact with an inmate. Santiago Alcantara, 37, who gave a 245 Raintree Drive address, was booked Monday into the Montgomery County Jail and charged with sexual contact with an inmate. His
bond was set at $10,000, and he bonded out the same day. According to a one-count indictment ...
5 Nov 10:29 pm
... as reliable scientific evidence is as powerful as DNA evidence to support a conviction," [San Jacinto County Criminal District Attorney
Bill] Burnett said. "The FBI is comfortable using Fort Bend ... he conducted two scent lineups - one in August of 2004 in San Jacinto County
and one in August of 2007 near Bellaire. "Quincy and Jag, registered ... he knew Richard Winfrey Sr. while they were incarcerated in the Montgomery County Jail. Campbell said he overheard Winfrey describe a
murder in San Jacinto ...
29 Apr, 2008 6:44 am
The Leaf Chronicle reports: A Clarksville woman has been arrested on three counts of illegal voting. Carla Thomas Smith, 36, who gave a 718-1/2 Central Ave. address, was booked Friday
into the Montgomery County Jail and has since been
released...
25 Jun 2:23 pm
... . He tried to turn himself in to federal authorities in the months before his indictment. But authorities couldn't take him into custody until charges were filed. Stanford was
returned to Texas on Tuesday. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail in Conroe, located just north of Houston, according to his attorney Dick DeGuerin. The most serious counts that Stanford faces carry prison terms of up
to ...
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