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13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am
But the USDOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics, whose count includes thousands of probationers in treatment as well as prisoners in county jails awaiting transfer to TDCJ, parole hearings, etc., did not report declines in Texas' state prisoner population until last year. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 3:33 pm
The company was accused of overcharging at the commissary at the Bexar County Jail in 2009 and in 2004 allegedly served unsafe food to inmates in Tarrant County. [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]
26 Apr 2013, 8:18 am
Susan Reed in Bexar County, to some extent, though perhaps for partisan reasons her delegation doesn't reliably carry her water. [read post]
14 Apr 2013, 11:16 am
Ramirez at the time was in charge of running the Starr County Jail. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 6:02 am
Bills up in committee today and tomorrow aim to treat some mentally ill defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial in county jails instead of state mental hospitals. [read post]
11 Oct 2012, 8:59 am
DWLI enhanced charges are class A misdemeanors that can result in 1 year of Bexar County Jail time, and up to $4000 in fines. [read post]
2 Oct 2012, 12:01 pm
If you were to actually go to your local law library in Texas (ours in is the Bexar County Court House on the 5th Floor), you would be able to find the following law defining what DWI is (it is in a copy of the Texas Penal Code, incase you really need to find a book on this). [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 10:42 am
Inmates Die Mysteriously in Texas Jails and Prisons This week, guards discovered a man dead in his cell at the Bexar County Detention Center (the jail for San Antonio) and it’s still not clear why or how he died. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 6:34 am
Other testimony at Monday's House County Affairs hearing mentioned that, while the overall Bexar County jail populations is declining (as is happening to various degrees across the state), demand for mental-health beds is the one category that continues to increase, straining capacity. [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]
27 May 2012, 8:01 am
And finally, local jails need to be more proactive in their approach instead of waiting for courts and state hospitals to address defendants' competency.Harris County has arguably the best front-end approach to dealing with competency restoration among large Texas jurisdictions, IMO. [read post]
22 May 2012, 9:24 am
Meanwhile, Bexar County, where the population exceeds 1.7 million, has had none. [read post]
22 May 2012, 7:32 am
IMO that absence of Bexar County exonerations speaks more to a lack of diligence and openness by local officials to reviewing such cases than it does the perfection of Bexar County's decidedly imperfect process. [read post]
9 May 2012, 5:03 pm
The number of deportations from Travis County also exceeded that of nearby Bexar County, which includes San Antonio and has a larger overall population. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 6:57 am
They're calling it a "rocket docket," which is a term usually reserved for plea-mill scenarios as opposed to taking cases to trial.Reduced jail pop credited with passed inspectionThe Harris County Sheriff credited the decline in inmate numbers for helping the Harris County Jail pass inspection this year Prison chapel isn't open courtA trial held in a prison chapel does not satisfy the requirement for an open court, ruled the… [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]
7 Apr 2012, 7:54 am
As of March 1, according to the Commission on Jail Standards monthly report (pdf), pretrial detainees made up 63.6% of Texas county jail inmates. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 7:00 am
"The short timelines set forth in the court's order makes it physically, fiscally and logistically impossible for DSHS to comply and indicates a lack of appreciation for the magnitude of the task and the complications inherent in implementing the terms of the order," the state wrote in its motion.The attorney general has also appealed the ruling with the state's 3rd Court of Appeals.See prior, related Grits posts:BSG (Broke State Goverment) seeking… [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 5:43 am
“Keeping incompetent pretrial criminal defendants confined in county jail for unreasonable periods of time prior to being admitted to a state mental health facility or residential health facility violates the incompetent detainees’ due process rights as guaranteed by the Texas Constitution,” Naranjo wrote last month, ruling against the state in a civil case.Naranjo’s ruling comes as something of a wakeup call for the… [read post]
