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26 Jan 2011, 7:54 am
The jail system is already dealing with the constraints of a limited mental health system, said Daniel Smith , counseling and education manager for the Travis County sheriff's office.About 20 percent of the approximately 2,400 inmates currently at the Travis County Correctional Complex and Travis County Jail are on psychotropic drugs for a mental illness. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 9:42 am
According to those data, 23.9% of Dallas inmates are low-level state jail felons or misdemeanor violators who have not been convicted yet - they're sitting in jail awaiting trial mostly because they cannot afford bail.To compare with another large metropolitan Texas county, misdemeanor and state jail felony pretrial detainees make up just 10.5% of Harris County's jail population.If Dallas just reduced those two categories of pretrial defendants… [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am
Angela Harris Twenty years ago this September, over 3500 activists gathered in my home town of Berkeley, California, for a conference entitled “Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 2:04 am
(See Grits' 2005 series on Harris County jail overcrowding.) [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 5:27 am
Squeeze the balloon in Harris County and they wind up in Louisiana. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 11:15 am
Sandra: “Police, Jails and Vulnerable People” Scott: There you go, so welcome Sandra. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 8:56 am
In El Paso, too, DA Jaime Esparza recently told a conference at the Task Force on Indigent Defense, that the DA's Information Management System (DIMS) allowed defense counsel to get access to case files within 24 hours and facilitated more routine cases getting disposed of within three days or less, reducing jail costs, overcrowding, liability, relieving court dockets, and even freeing up space in the jail that's now leased out to house federal inmates and makes… [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 9:00 am
See our prior post: HOW TO HANDLE STARK AND ANTI-KICKBACK LEGAL BARRIERS WHEN PHYSICIANS INVEST IN AN MSO This is a story about how Harry, a healthcare entrepreneur, worked through a proposed arrangement that was raising Stark and Anti-Kickback issues. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 10:44 am
" The problem is that people--even innocent people--who are stuck in jail because they are too poor to post bail--so desperately want to get out of jail that they plead guilty quickly, before the secondary lab tests can be completed. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 7:49 am
Certainly, it's a bad look for the "managed assigned counsel" program in Travis County. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
Managing a mentally ill inmate whose case cannot be disposed can be an even greater problem in smaller, rural jurisdictions whose jail and staff are likely not trained or equipped to handle them. [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 9:28 pm
A mobile fish seller who forced customers to buy fish in England that was often unfit to eat has been jailed. [read post]
13 Jul 2009, 5:54 am
He also failed to suggest solutions to increased jail overcrowding caused by expanded immigration detention.Scarce little of what Garcia had to say suggested solutions for the main causes of overcrowding at the Harris Jail - too many inmates awaiting trial and too few guards to watch them. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 1:40 pm
Most of those who might get out on bail because of the government’s delay don’t need to be in jail anyway. [read post]
12 Mar 2009, 9:19 am
Harry Markopolos, a former money manager, told Congress that he tried to persuade the agency for nine years that Madoff was a fraud, and that most agency officials he dealt with suffered from "investigative ineptitude. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 12:48 pm
He looked at court records from Harris County, Texas from 1980 to 2009.Mueller-Smith observed that in Harris County people charged with similar crimes received totally different sentences depending on the judge to whom they were randomly assigned. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 3:51 am
Harris has hooked up with Senator Rand Paul to push a new bill to use federal money to bribe states to change their evil bail ways and reduce pre-trial jailing due to poverty. [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]
1 Dec 2009, 11:19 am
Copyright 2009 Lesley Ellen Harris. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 6:44 am
Shoplifting arrests are extremely common in Harris County. [read post]
