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9 Dec 2009, 3:53 am
Indeed, Harris County accounts for such a large proportion of less-than-a-gram cases in Texas, this decision could even help out the state in the medium-term with managing state-jail population growth. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 6:58 am
He's put a copy of his presentation online, entitled Managing Jail Population Growth in Texas: The State and Local Challenges.A few highlights:Between 2000 and 2007, Texas rate of incarceration in prisons actually declined by 9.4%, while the rate of people incarcerated in county jails rose by 4.3%. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 10:10 am
The decision came after both the District Courts Administrator and the County Courts Manager recommended its creation. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 12:35 pm
According to statistics released from the Harris County Office of Court Management department, the number of Harris County DWI acquittals grew from 3 in 2002 to over 100 acquittals in 2007 and 2008. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 12:57 am
"Payment to Texas counties ranged from $308 to Dimmit County to $2.8 million to Harris County (Houston). [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 8:27 am
May's evidence-based approaches going forward, in a few years they'll find themselves right back in the same spot.H/T: Kuff.MORE: While we're on the subject of judge-created clusterf#%ks in Harris County, Mark Bennett and Robb Fickman both have good posts up about the excessive use of pretrial detention in Harris County which is driving their too-high jail population. [read post]
8 May 2009, 12:10 am
The sheriff's revised proposal included a scaled-back helicopter program, but called for spending most of the money on computer systems to better manage inmates and jailers. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 4:47 am
Given their chronic jail overcrowding problems, it might be a chance for Harris County to kill more than one bird with a single stone.RELATED: See this letter (pdf) to the Harris County Commissioner's Court from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and an array of religious and community groups supporting the creation of a public defender office. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 3:38 am
(Hundreds of inmates from the Harris County Jail diaspora ended up in a La Salle facility in Urania, La). [read post]
16 Aug 2016, 10:01 am
The Harris County Jail (HCJ)is the third largest jail in the United States, and the largest in the State of Texas. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 5:17 am
For these reasons, this is a difficult population for jail staff to manage, and yet jails tend to have limited mental health resources to serve this population. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 12:12 pm
A six-month study by Harris County’s public mental health authority found that people on the waiting list were three times more likely to end up in the Harris County Jail than their counterparts receiving services.But once in the jail, help is available. [read post]
26 Oct 2008, 11:30 am
In Harris County, according to our pal at the blog Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center, the arresting officer must phone the on-call Assistant DA, describe the incident and get agreement about the proposed charge up front, which prevents jailing people who will never charged.When El Paso began using the DIMS system, said Esparza, the county jail was so crowded that officers were in many cases forced to give summons instead of making arrests. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 7:13 am
In my essay on my recent Harris County Jail tour, I described how a relatively small number of "frequent flyers" account for a huge proportion of jail utilization. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 12:45 pm
” And just how did Exley manage to secure the Fort Bend County conviction? [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 6:08 am
Still, the story gives outsiders an idea of the range of disciplinary challenges facing managers at one of the nation's largest jails. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 7:02 am
When it comes to crime, trends trump anecdotes for managers but anecdotes trump trends for the press.That's Grits' takeaway from the report from federal monitors analyzing reforms generated by Harris County's misdemeanor bail litigation. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:56 am
They not only save the county money on attorneys fees (thanks to economies of scale) but also help process defendants more quickly and to that extent even help with jail overcrowding. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 2:48 am
In all, these offenders accounted for 183,016 jail days in Harris County for all diagnoses. [read post]
2 May 2016, 11:39 am
” County jails, especially those like the Harris County Jail, are dens of brutality and human neglect. [read post]
