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23 Apr 2009, 8:00 am
Mando Martinez that would probably do more to improve conditions in private jails than any regulatory reform: It would void private jail contracts unless the county enters into the contract in a collective bargaining agreement between the county and sheriff's department employees. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 5:04 am
State Sen. [read post]
27 Jul 2008, 9:20 am
Of those incarcerated in prison (as opposed to state jails or SAFP programs), a whopping 66% are currently eligible for parole.The six largest counties account for just more than 50% of TDCJ residents:Harris 19.5%Dallas 12.5%Tarrant 7.3%Bexar 6.4%Travis 3.4%El Paso 1.6%An interesting capital punishment note ... [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 5:47 am
Also in Bexar County, "A federal jury Thursday found a former Bexar County Jail guard guilty of assaulting one inmate and acquitted him in the alleged beating of another. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 1:43 am
An inmate broke out of the Bexar County jail with a safety pin. [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]
2 Apr 2007, 10:58 am
This was an approach favored by Bexar County Jail Administrator Dennis McKnight, who wrote last fall:Over the past two years I have suggested the police quit arresting non-violent misdemeanants, file the cases at large and summons the defendant to court.Both bills leave discretion in the hands of the officer to arrest if they think they need to, but it saves the officer time off the street, and reduces the need for jail space to house low-level offenders - a… [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
County Commissioners are also considering expanding the jail in Huntsville.Hutto Litigation UpdateThe Texas Observer blog has an update on the litigation at the Hutto immigrant family detention facility. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 3:47 pm
A Probation Department in Texas is this "thing" created by the state legislature that is neither a municipal, county or state department. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 12:10 pm
Tarrant County District Courts Bexar County District Courts Collin County District Courts Dallas County District Courts Denton County District Courts Harris County District Courts Johnson County District Courts Parker County District Courts The post Court Appointed Attorneys in Texas | Should you use a court-appointed attorney? [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 12:28 pm
(Subscription required) — Texas Lawyer Activists commit to bailing people out of large county jails in Texas — The Texas Organizing Project will begin bailing out people from Bexar, Harris, Dallas and Fort Bend counties today out of concern for COVID-19. [read post]
10 Nov 2013, 9:48 am
However, the collections letters from the Bexar County DA threaten arrest, jail and criminal prosecution." [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:18 am
Nearly twice as many defendants in Harris County were sent to state jails last year for possessing less than 1 gram of a drug than in Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar counties combined. [read post]
31 Mar 2020, 1:29 pm
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales has followed the lead of Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, who has released several hundred non-dangerous individuals, by suggesting that Harris County take the same approach. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 11:54 am
" Finally, in San Antonio, a Bexar County jail guard last month was convicted for smuggling hacksaw blades into the jail inside of soft tacos, the third time in three months Bexar guards have been caught smuggling items into the jail via food items.These are all "isolated incidents," of course; kinda like the isolated cases of steroid use in baseball. [read post]
6 Jun 2009, 2:21 pm
[pdf] View E-Briefs in THE STATE OF TEXAS v. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 8:05 pm
Specialty Courts in Texas There are over 140 specialty court programs in Texas. [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]
3 Feb 2016, 6:36 am
(Harris County's drug cases boosted that number.)Finally, it's worth pointing out one of the final Texas' exonerations of 2015, that of Calvin Day in Bexar County, a doctor charged with sexually assaulting patients in his office. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:18 am
The main reason is to keep police officers on the street, saving: "each officer the two to four hours squandered in driving a nonviolent misdemeanor suspect to the county jail and going through the booking rigamarole. [read post]
