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31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
The Bexar County Sheriff resigned to avoid a felony indictment for bribery regarding a contract with a private firm to operate the jail commissary.New DPS Drug Enforcement Rules Boost Seizures, Reduce ArrestsVying with the previous item for the "Most important, seldom told story of the year," the Texas Department of Public Safety reported this year that new drug enforcement priorities implemented in recently adopted agency rules growing out of the "Tulia"… [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 12:57 am
Here are several jail related items I've been watching that may interest Grits readers:Federal suit filed against Dallas jail for medical neglectThis has been a long time coming: A civil rights lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Ellard alleging medical neglect at the Dallas County Jail, especially notable as the first such litigation since Parkland hospital took over medical care at the jail from UTMB Galveston's correctional managed care… [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 1:10 am
The UTMB-Galveston Faculty Association blog identifies the common reasoning between Jefferson County's recent decision not to hire UTMB for its jail healthcare (discussed on Grits here) and Dallas County's decision to end its contract with the Galveston medical school: UTMB wants "to make mistakes and have the contracting county eat the resulting lawsuits. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 11:55 pm
It's a bad idea, and not just for NIMBY reasons.UTMB rejected for Beaumont jail healthcare contractIn Beaumont, Jefferson County Commissioners rejected a bid by UTMB Galveston to operate jail healthcare, relying instead on a company called NaphCare. [read post]
2 Oct 2007, 1:11 am
Decker, 70, agreed to spend 45 days in jail and pay $1.5 million in back taxes and fines. [read post]
Feds sue over Dallas jail healthcare: 'If people treated animals this way, they would be prosecuted'
14 Sep 2007, 5:32 am
The feds have sued Dallas County over poor health conditions in the jail, reported AP yesterday:Federal prosecutors allege in a lawsuit that inmates at the Dallas County Jail are at risk of harm because of unsafe jail conditions and a lack of proper health care. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
That includes Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, Collin, Denton, Fort Bend, Cameron, Nueces, Montgomery, Jefferson, Galveston, Williamson, Lubbock, Brazoria, Bell, and McLennan Counties, as of the 2000 Census. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 1:58 am
Recently they won the contract for the Galveston County jail, and now they're going to begin providing healthcare at a federal prison in Beaumont. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 11:06 pm
," the Galveston County Commissioners Court entered a new cost cutting contract for jail healthcare with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, even though UTMB's healthcare delivery at the Dallas Jail and Texas prisons has been poor and generated lawsuits. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:13 pm
It was the Union soldiers who arrived in Galveston about three months after Robert E. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 5:41 am
Find out more here.Travis County tries restorative justice for violent offendersThe Austin Statesman's Joshunda Sanders writes this morning about a restorative justice program at the Travis County Jail aimed at violent offenders that appears to be reducing recidivism. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 1:12 pm
The Faculty Association at UTMB Galveston has been watching the Dallas jail fiasco from afar, and they couldn't help but notice their own employer's prominent role and alleged culpability. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 4:30 am
More psyciatric beds are crucial.In Galveston County we hope to set up a Mental Health Court. [read post]
9 Jan 2007, 2:45 pm
"Anthony Graves traded a cell on Texas' death row for a cell in the Burleson County Jail, where he awaits retrial for the 1992 murders of a woman and five children who were shot, stabbed and beaten and whose Somerville home was set on fire. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 7:56 am
Anthony Graves, who the Texas Innocence Network says is innocent, must remain in the Burleson County Jail until Jan. 4 before he can post bail with the federal court in Galveston, according to a ruling issued late Monday by the 5th U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 10:18 am
District Judge Samuel Kent ordered his release, the same federal appeals court that threw out his capital murder conviction ordered that he remain in the Burleson County Jail. [read post]
