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5 Nov 2008, 1:08 pm
"New Sheriff in Harris, Still Counting DA's Race VotesI already mentioned the Democrats' near-sweep in Harris County judicial races (Mark Bennett has more), but didn't point out that long-time GOP incumbent Tommy Thomas lost to Democratic challenger Adrian Garcia, an historic upset. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 2:15 pm
This year, Harris County has had from 900 to 1,250 parole violators in jail each month.As local and state budgets get increasingly tightened, Sheriff Adrian Garcia and other members of the Sheriffs' Association of Texas are asking the Legislature for help with jail costs. [read post]
10 Oct 2012, 8:24 am
Story goes, according to Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, that there were jail workers who were having sex with female inmates in the jail laundry rooms. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 5:54 am
While I'm distracted today by a family tragedy piled on top of other scheduled duties, I wanted to point out a few recent news stories that deserve Grits readers' attention which might merit further commentary if I had more time or ability to focus:Harris County Jail commentaryThe Harris County Sheriff has a column in the Houston Chronicle today that's filled with catch phrases and feel-good commentary, but for the life of me I can't tell what position Sheriff Adrian… [read post]
20 May 2012, 7:57 am
"It's been more successful than we anticipated," Garcia said. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 5:23 am
In response to that episode, Sheriff Adrian Garcia installed additional cameras throughout the jail. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 8:23 am
Having just reversed itself in the face of an en banc rehearing in Garcia v. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 8:23 am
Having just reversed itself in the face of an en banc rehearing in Garcia v. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 12:13 pm
In this case, it was Democratic Sheriff Adrian Garcia who reduced visitation hours in Harris County to among the lowest among large Texas jurisdictions:Garcia cut visitation to the county jail in 2011 - from seven to four days - a move the sheriff said at the time would save $1.3 million annually in overtime pay for detention officers as the county faced a budgetary crisis. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 6:51 pm
He went on to ask for “specific evidence” of those allegations, and concluded: Sheriff Adrian Garcia and staff strive to provide the public with a safe (for inmates, staff, visitors and others) environment that complies with and often surpasses all regulations and accreditation standards. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 5:51 am
Even so, former Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, who resigned his post to run for Houston mayor, must feel as though the Houston Chronicle has signed on to perform Sylvester Turner's opposition research. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 7:20 am
So some jurisdictions have found a way to reverse the one-way ratchet that continues to increase incarceration levels even when crime is declining.Hair Balls notes that "Alan Bernstein, a spokesman for Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, says the stats in the study are correct but draws attention to the period covered, which is almost entirely before Garcia's term began. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 6:58 am
Those persons – the straw-purchasers – included Laredo residents Adrian Bustos, 26, Mario Magana, 25, Homero Garcia III, Manuel Rangel, 40, Hector Lozano III, 25, and Jose Angel Monsivais, 38. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:05 am
Sheriff Adrian Garcia expects the numbers to grow. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 10:43 pm
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Adrian Estrada v. [read post]
7 May 2010, 10:52 pm
"If you've got information on the fugitives we didn't get within this particular time frame we will still go out and get them," said Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am
Ironically, though the article portrays this suggestion as an attack on Sheriff Adrian Garcia, the suggestion probably plays into his hands politically by setting the Sheriff up as a champion against privatization in they eyes of the deputies union, who otherwise aren't his biggest fans.RELATED (4/22): Harris County Jail scaling back visitation hours. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 6:21 am
Reports the Houston Chronicle's Mike Morris this morning ("Thanks to less crowding, overflow inmates staying in Harris"):Dropping inmate numbers at the Harris County Jail will let the county end its nearly 5-year-old practice of shipping overflow inmates to Louisiana and other Texas counties within days, Sheriff Adrian Garcia said this week.The jail population has fallen 31 percent since 2008, to 8,573 inmates. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 4:54 am
So when there are problems, they tend to scale up.Houston voters sent a pretty strong message recently by failing to give former Sheriff Adrian Garcia a spot in the runoff for Mayor in a race which, at one time, some people thought was his to lose. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 11:22 am
While we'd always want to work with the city to maximize that resource, there's not a lot of room for expansion," said Alan Bernstein, spokesman for Sheriff Adrian Garcia, who runs the county jail.All low-level, nonviolent county jail inmates willing and eligible to participate in outside work already do so, Bernstein said. [read post]
