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16 Jun 2019, 6:42 pm by David Oscar Markus
  It's countless nights in the Special Housing Unit or sleeping on the floor of a county jail, all the while being cut off from being able to speak to your family. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 4:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This legislation was a hot mess.In addition to all the bills dying that would have reduced incarceration in county jails, measures to limit state-prison intake numbers also foundered:Three-strikes misdemeanor theftThree-strikes theft reform (HB 1240 by Davis) was another good bill that died in the Calendars Committee without a floor vote. [read post]
9 Jun 2019, 6:02 pm by Cannabis Law Group
If the case is settled, we likely won’t know the terms, and the theme park and county will be able to eschew any kind of wrongdoing – officially. [read post]
10 May 2019, 12:30 pm by John Ross
The county accedes but only if the former officers promise not to sue. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 4:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
They happen tens of thousands of times around the state every year. and are a significant contributor to local county jail costs. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 7:24 am by Katherine Kelley
Content warning: This post contains content that may be upsetting for some readers. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am by Lovechilde
  The reliability of many other Orange County cases has been called into question since the D.A. scandal broke -- and one murder conviction based on the false testimony of one of the very same snitches who testified against Tom has been reversed. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:18 am by Lovechilde
  The reliability of many other Orange County cases has been called into question since the D.A. scandal broke -- and one murder conviction based on the false testimony of one of the very same snitches who testified against Tom has been reversed. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The New York Times analyzed a pretrial-release bail-alternative program in NYC that reduced the population of the jail on Rikers Island by 38 percent. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 7:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Cooke County is a mostly rural area hugging the Oklahoma border north of Denton; Gainesville is the county seat.After rightly complaining that the state's under-funded school-finance system, not county expenditures, were driving property-tax increases, Mr. [read post]
10 Jan 2019, 10:00 am
In 2017, Human Rights Watch found that in California, at least 63 percent of people in county jails “have not been sentenced, but are serving time because they cannot afford to pay bail. [read post]
26 Dec 2018, 12:03 pm by William K. Berenson
Failing to do so can result in a conviction for a Class C misdemeanor and a fine up to $500.00 and six months in a county jail. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 4:00 am by eileen peck
The fourteenth man remains jailed on a probation violation and does not yet face federal charges. [read post]
11 Sep 2018, 6:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In fact, Texas even has more state prisoners than California, but with 30 percent less population than the Golden Bear.Heck, the Harris County Jail is larger than 19 state prison systems! [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For more background on why this is needed, check out an excellent, extended article on flawed forensics published in Congressional Quarterly last year.Eliminating Class C arrests could resolve Bexar jail beefThe biggest beef between the San Antonio PD and Bexar County over whether the PD will use the county's new jail intake facility is maintaining a space for processing Class C misdemeanor arrests. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 2:00 am by Brinton Wilkins, Kirton McConkie
Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa, Oklahoma, No. 17-5058 (10th Cir., March 14, 2018). [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 2:00 am by Brinton Wilkins, Kirton McConkie
Board of County Commissioners of Tulsa, Oklahoma, No. 17-5058 (10th Cir., March 14, 2018). [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 7:51 am by Eugene Volokh
Nor are states necessarily deterred by the difficulty of collecting fines (however multiplied through late fees) from the poor: the threat of jail time can often be used to collect the money "from the families and friends of those arrested who wished to save their loved ones from languishing in jail. [read post]