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5 Apr 2011, 2:28 pm
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has long had rules in place for use of tents by county jails. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 7:55 am
Neither the state nor Texas counties can build their way out of the current overincarceration crisis. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am
The Harris County Jail treats more individuals with mental health issues on a daily basis than our state's 10 psychiatric hospitals combined. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 6:54 am
”Williamson County saved $3.2 million from 2005-08 through reduced jail bookings and necessary medications in jail, while Bexar County has saved “at least” an estimated $5 million annually through a similar program, Wood previously told commissioners. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 3:37 pm
Lozito cited a study commissioned in 2003 projecting that the 2012 Bexar County jail population would be 4,800. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
(Thankfully, commissaries in adult Texas prisons are operated by TDCJ.)It's clear that Texas needs to perform a comprehensive investigation/audit of county jail commissary contracts statewide. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:55 am
Crimes That Will Not Get You Prosecuted With the overcrowding of prisons and the high cost of the current criminal justice system, some Texas district attorneys are changing county policies in an attempt to reduce the jail population. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 11:10 am
Tyler officials should listen to voters, use new tools to reduce jail overcrowdingSheriffs more likely than PDs to welcome new arrest discretionJefferson County works out kinks with new cite and summons authorityHow one Texas county will take advantage of new law to reduce jail overcrowdingHB 2391 could save Bexar taxpayers $10,000 per dayCite and summons for low-level offenses could free up jail spaceTexas Lege approved new tools to… [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 5:54 am
I don't think Harris, Bexar, and Liberty will be the last counties we hear of in the next 3-5 years reducing jail populations to save costs. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 1:11 pm
The appointed attorney for Janice Dotson-Stephens - the schizophrenic grandmother who died in the Bexar County jail over the holidays - never once visited her in the five months she sat in jail on a $300 misdemeanor bond. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 12:59 pm
San Antonio Jail Sexual Assault on Inmate: Surveillance Video An inmate filed a criminal complaint down in San Antonio against a Bexar County Sheriff’s Department detention deputy, Erick Montez, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in the back of a van during the process of the inmate being moved from the Bexar County Annex to the Bexar County Jail. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:51 am
Brandi Grissom at The Texas Tribune reports that "sheriffs across Texas are increasingly frustrated and worried about the ever-decreasing amount of bed space available at state mental hospitals. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 3:29 pm
Exceeding the national trend, Texas jail populations have reduced 9.5% overall since 2008, according to the Commission on Jail Standards, with Harris and Bexar Counties registering especially significant declines. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 3:03 pm
Endangering a child is a state felony and is punishable with up to two years of jail time and a possible fine of 10,000 USD. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 12:51 pm
TCRP is working with co-counsel from California in the Waco case who:has settled several class-action strip-search cases against county jails in at least three other states and currently has a similar suit pending in Bexar County in Texas, a Texas Civil Rights Project spokesman said. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:05 am
"It's almost as if these people were invisible, as if there were no awareness of the problem within communities across the state of Texas, and particularly in Harris County. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 3:44 am
We urge Nueces County officials and the state of Texas to make reduction of jail populations a priority, both to save on jail costs and to help inmates turn their lives around. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 5:13 am
Yamil Berard is one of them.Jail health privatizationNavarro County is considering privatizing health care services at its county jail.New jail suggestion rejectedCommissioners in Rockwall County rejected a study designed to prepare them for jail expansion.Welcome to SA, prepare to be blamedThe Bexar County Jail just got a new jail administrator. [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 12:23 am
Grayson County in northeast Texas has applied for grant funding to create a mental health court to treat the large percentage of jail inmates in the county suffering from serious mental illness. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 5:17 am
Among my professional experiences, I have served as a federal court-appointed monitor of conditions in the Texas prison system; have been a consultant to a number of jail systems around the country on issues related to inmate safety; was the drafter of the American Bar Association’s Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners; have been an expert witness and consultant in three lawsuits involving deaths in custody in county jails; worked with the… [read post]
