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4 Jan 2010, 9:01 pm
— Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Register, December 29, 2009 In accordance with Section 122 (h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (‘‘CERCLA’’), 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), notice is hereby given of a proposed administrative settlement concerning the Malone Service Company Superfund Site, Texas City, Galveston County, Texas. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:33 am
Comeaux met with a local community activist, Quanell X at the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and here’s where the Big Story begins. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 10:14 am
(Judge Kent’s already serving jail time.) [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 11:38 pm
For now, see coverage of the TCRP report from the Galveston County News and some contemporary Grits coverage:Hubris: Galveston Sheriff leaves inmates, deputies in Hurricane's pathWaiting for word on 1,000 prisoners stranded at Galveston jailGalveston jail unprepared for Ike aftermathUPDATE: See the Houston Chronicle's coverage of the TCRP report. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 12:48 am
TDCJ's cost per prisoner in recent years has been artificially low and cannot be sustained at current levels.I've said before, given TDCJ's understaffing crisis (they're around 3,000 guards short of minimum staffing), perhaps it's now time to consider actually reducing the size of Texas' Prison Nation in order to stave off rising incarceration costs.If you add up every Texan currently in prison, on probation, on parole, or sitting in a county jail, it… [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 3:14 am
Palm Beach County jail records indicate that close to eighty percent of current inmates have served time in that jail previously. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:00 pm
Sure looks like it to me. 09/16/2008 GALVESTON â€â [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 9:45 am
Texas Commission on Jail Standards Chief Adan Munoz is headed down to Galveston today to check on the deputies and inmates who've been stranded in the county jail after Hurricane Ike without electricity, working toilets or running water.Victoria jail still evacuated. [read post]
17 Sep 2008, 7:27 am
As I wrote on Friday, many Galveston inmates were sitting in jail awaiting trial or for low-level offenses who could have been released if the county had planned ahead. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 2:42 am
Read the rest of the article here by ProgressiveSouth Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 05:02:44 PM PDT Cross-posted at Facing South Texas-based blog Grits for Breakfast is covering the shocking news that Galveston Island's sheriff -- despite official warnings that those who stayed in Galveston faced "certain death" -- refused to evacuate at least 1,000 people in the county jail. [read post]
14 Sep 2008, 6:56 am
Galveston Island residents were told to flee Hurricane Ike or face "certain death," but the Sheriff has inexplicably decided not to evacuate 1,000 prisoners from the county jail, even though serious flooding has already begun. [read post]
14 Sep 2008, 6:43 am
Still no word on what happened with the 1,000 inmates and their jailers stranded at the Galveston County jail during Hurricane Ike. [read post]
12 Sep 2008, 5:51 pm
There was an earlier report that six feet of water surged into the county courthouse next door, but this morning CNN reports "The storm flooded the historic district with 7 feet of water, which has since subsided to 4 feet, according to a Galveston county official. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 3:21 pm
"Aransas County has evacuated its jail. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
In Harris County, judges have used their discretion to send those defendants to county jail for up to six months as a condition of their probation.According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (pdf), 1,102 state jail felons were sentenced to county jail terms as a probation condition as of May 1 - more than the number of new private beds for which the county just contracted. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 9:07 am
Both men had criminal backgrounds and served short jail terms for the police station thefts. [read post]
30 May 2008, 6:37 am
"I don't want to erroneously put anybody in jail," the chief said.Officials in Galveston and Brazoria County deserve extra credit in my book for their decision to drop low-level drug case that relied missing evidence or tainted officer testimony, particularly with so many exonerations peppering recent headlines. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 10:35 am
., have sex with his wife in an interrogation room at the Galveston County Jail several days after he is accused of placing his daughter in a microwave oven for 10 to 20 seconds on May 10. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 6:39 pm
"But in cases like the two recent Galveston County arrests, the women are rarely pedophiles, Reamer said.Instead, the women are mentally close in age to their victim and rationalize their pursuit. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 2:41 am
This was the only new tool given to counties by the Lege in 2007 to combat jail overcrowding, and too many pols have refused to use it. [read post]
