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23 Jul 2018, 3:06 pm
And if the Legislature doesn't take charge, it will change via county-by-county litigation, which has already spread to Galveston and Dallas counties and will go wider, guaranteed, if the Lege doesn't step in. [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 9:13 am
Galveston jailThe Galveston County Jail faces new federal litigation alleging that several recent inmate deaths resulted from sub-par medical care.Commissary theftA former Milam County Sheriff's Office captain has been convicted of stealing from the inmate commissary fund. [read post]
11 May 2018, 1:01 pm
Authoring Justice Blacklock allows that the record of the shooter (who was later convicted and is now in jail) may not have made him the ideal candidate to be a peace officer, considering that he had been fired from 12 of 21 prior jobs, that he was dismissed from the police academy for bad behavior, and that he required mood stabilizing medications. [read post]
29 Apr 2018, 7:03 pm
Fill in the BlankLitigation in Galveston County made national press after a judge refused to pay for defense-attorney investigation in misdemeanor case. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits' readers attention:Galveston sued over bail scheduleACLU has sued Galveston County over its bail schedule, adding that county to Harris and Dallas as bail litigation sites. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 2:20 pm
The lawsuit alleges that Galveston County’s money bail system violates the Constitution by keeping people in jail if they cannot afford bail. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 1:47 pm
" The plaintiff, Aaron Booth, is currently detained in the Galveston County Jail... [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 11:30 am
Give it a listen:See a recent link roundup here related to these DA races (evaluating primaries in Dallas, Bexar, McLennan, Smith, Walker, Victoria, Denton, Smith, and Galveston counties). [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 1:48 pm
In Galveston, Jack Roady faces a primary challenger accusing the incumbent of being soft on crime. [read post]
17 Sep 2017, 6:20 am
See our Facebook event page for details.You can listen to the podcast here, or as usual find a transcript with links to underlying documents and news stories below the jump.Here are the topics covered in the September 2017 episode:Top StoriesPolice-union pension crisis predicted by Ron DeLordProsecutors ill-advised to withhold witness statementsBig implications for Harris County bail-reform litigationForensic FolliesJunk Science Writs and the Goldilocks ProblemFirst… [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 8:42 am
That should have been the case after inmates were stranded during Hurricanes Katrina (New Orleans) and Ike (Galveston). [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 1:41 pm
Unlike time served in the county jail or prison, state jail sentences must be served day for day. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm
[Jesse] Jacobs' death was not the first time the jail has been scrutinized for its medical care of inmates: The jail ran afoul of state jail regulators in 2013, when inspectors found that the county was not dispensing medication as doctors had ordered. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 9:08 pm
He was being held in Galveston County jail on $60,000 bond. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 6:25 pm
Instead the cases will be heard in the southeastern section of the state including Montgomery, Harris, and Galveston counties.7. [read post]
13 May 2014, 4:43 am
Charles 'Trey'] Kleinert, who retired from the department amid an internal affairs investigation, surrendered himself Monday to officers at the Travis County Jail, where he was booked, fingerprinted and released on bail. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 10:07 pm
Aguilar, now seven months pregnant, has been in the Galveston County Jail since July for violating her probation on an earlier drug conviction. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 11:50 am
Robert Stanton's story opened:A Texas City man who spent 10 months in jail for a crime he did not commit has filed a $3 million federal lawsuit against officials in Galveston County and Texas City.Joshua Bledsoe was released from custody in June 2011, when state District Judge Susan Criss issued a direct verdict in his favor. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm
But some counties simply scaled back to multi-agency drug task forces among agencies in the same county - which are not regulated by DPS - and those continue to crop up as sources of corruption and ineptitude.Understaffing and jail suicidesSee a must-read piece by Michael Barajas at the SA Current titled "Dead in Seven Hours: When overdosed meets overworked, Bexar County Jail's fatal flaws come to light." [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 7:43 pm
Nordahl, 49, is being held in the Galveston County Jail. [read post]
