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7 Apr 2014, 3:30 pm
MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX — One person was killed, and four people were hurt in a major crash that happened in McLennan County, Texas on Friday, April 4th, 2014, according to a report from KWTX. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 2:10 pm
MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX — A single-vehicle accident sent one driver to the hospital in Mclennan County, Texas on Thursday, March 27th, 2014, according to the news article from KWTX. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 3:33 pm
MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX – One man was killed in a serious accident that happened in McLennan County, Texas on Friday, August 29th, 2014, according to the article about the accident on KXXV. [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 2:52 pm
MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX — A single-vehicle accident left one man dead in Mclennan County, Texas on Friday, April 18th, 2014, according to a news report from KXXV. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 1:47 pm
McLennan County, TX — John Matthew Bumgardner was killed when the car he was driving collided with another in McLennan County, Texas. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 7:40 am
Helton fears, there comes a day when the county doesn't need so much jail space, McLennan County will find itself in the same situation as the Texas Youth Commission recently - paying a contractor for empty jail beds. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 9:55 am
Our friends Diana Claitor and Rebecca Larsen of the Texas Jail Project have a fine little column in the Waco Tribune Herald today titled "McLennan County jail increasingly mired in abuse. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 8:06 am
In Waco, McLennan County's on-again, off-again private jail plan is back on after a contentious, 3-2 commissioners court vote yesterday, reports the Waco Tribune Herald ("McLennan County Commissioners approve hiring company to build additional jail," Aug. 14).Commissioner Joe Mashek argued McLennan County didn't need three jails, that they should simply take over the facility downtown presently operated by a private prison… [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 10:28 pm
I.C.E. data for McLennan County, Texas, since begining participation in the Secure Communities program (January 2010): Total fingerprint sets submitted: 3,955 Number of matches indicating the person may be in the country illegally: Level 1offenders: 17 Level 2 and 3 offenders: 109 Non-criminals: 29 Number of people deported after a match is made: Level 1 offenders: 1 Level 2 offenders: 2 Level 3 offenders: 0 Noncriminals: 15 Surrounding counties have signed… [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 6:32 am
There's been a major shift in Texas over the past half decade or so regarding county jail overcrowding and how county commissioners should respond. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 2:51 pm
Via Texas Prison Bidness:#1: Closure of Dawson State Jail and Mineral Wells Pre-Parole Transfer Facility#2: City of McAllen rejects GEO Group prison for immigrants#3: The campaign to expose and close the Polk Detention Center#4: Two North Texas counties stand tall, reject jail privatization#5: Troubles persist at McLennan County's speculatively built private jailRELATED: See Grits' list of the Top Ten Texas Criminal Justice Stories of 2013. [read post]
15 Oct 2011, 4:57 am
Reported Cindy Culp at the Waco Tribune Herald (behind paywall)The McLennan County District Attorney’s office will oppose a request for new DNA testing in the decades-old Lake Waco triple murders case.Waco attorney Walter M. [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 7:08 am
"The McLennan County District Attorney's Office has tried to do too much too quickly, she said. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:22 am
But despite having contracts with at least two large counties to accept outside inmates, the center has not reached more than 50 percent capacity since its opening in June.According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the center reported Nov. 1 that only 39 percent of its beds were in use.Coryell County, which has been sending overflow inmates to McLennan, has instituted a Supervised Pretrial Services program to identify inmates who should be eligible for… [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 12:20 pm
The Nation Salvador Licea was arrested for driving with his driver's license expired and now faces deportation because of Secure Communities, a program in which all Texas counties participate. 80 percent of the 118 immigrants McLennan County has transferred into ICE custody since January 2010 who were non-criminals or accused of low-level traffic or misdemeanor offenses. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 2:07 pm
The Waco Tribune reports, "Pursuit of death penalty slows in McLennan County, Texas. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 6:42 am
First, seven of the deaths in recent months have come from just three counties - Webb, McLennan and Fort Bend. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 7:56 am
Even so, strangely enough, "the number of new bookings each month in McLennan County has gone up, suggesting less crime may not be the cause of the local inmate decline. ... the McLennan County Jail averaged 3,493 bookings each month in 2007. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:25 pm
McLennan County Judge Jim Lewis, who plans to meet with state Sen. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 8:45 am
The McLennan DA has been hoisted by his own petard. [read post]
