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22 Jun 2007, 2:44 am
"As I stand before you now, the jail is overcrowded and in noncompliance (with state standards)," said county Budget Officer David Smith, who presented a number of short-, medium- and long-term options. [read post]
25 Oct 2018, 2:58 pm
Contact DUI attorneys Smith and White to discuss an alternative to jail time for a DUI charge. [read post]
2 Aug 2008, 10:27 am
While Smith County (Tyler) voters will vote on proposed jail bonds in November for the third time in as many years, in Houston the Harris County Commissioners Court wisely declined to subject voters to a second jail bond election this November, suggesting they may ask again next May or even sometime beyond that. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 7:55 am
Having described today Bexar County's continuing struggle to manage its jail population, I should update readers on another county whose efforts I've been following - my home county of Smith, whose county seat is Tyler. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 7:00 pm
Smith County falls right in there. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 9:32 am
Nov. 2002: At the Smith County Jail Committee's first meeting, Sheriff J.B. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 2:32 pm
This is the second year in a row Smith County voters rejected a new jail. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 3:01 am
Smith County has historically just continued to build more jail cells, but this does not help move the cases out of our jail and on to the proper disposition. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:50 am
Three months ahead of schedule, savings from Smith County's new jail alternative program reached the $1 million mark, I'm happy to report. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 4:54 am
John Barned-Smith, "[I]n thousands of pages of autopsy reports and internal disciplinary reports, the Chronicle found 35 instances in which jailers skipped required cell checks or faked records to hide skipping them, a pattern that experts called a serious problem at county jails statewide. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 4:01 pm
Smith, 21, was booked into Palm Beach County Jail on an aggravated battery charge. [read post]
14 Oct 2007, 1:22 am
According to this table (pdf) from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, jail projects currently planned or under construction - totaling 13,982 beds - would expand capacity of Texas county jails by 16.4%, an astonishing growth rate considering crime has been basically flat.With jail elections looming November in Harris, Smith and Howard Counties, I thought it'd be interesting to look at a snapshot of current county… [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 11:28 pm
In Smith, Brazos, and Harris Counties, though, voters should shoot down expensive proposals for new jail building, all of which would require immediate tax hikes, and insist their elected officials manage their jail populations better. [read post]
10 Oct 2008, 2:11 pm
I'll be amazed if fewer than 60 percent of Smith County voters oppose the jail, and I can't imagine it passing. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 1:59 pm
This is the fifth jail proposal developed by the Smith County Commissioners Court. [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 12:24 pm
Eric Smith, the Macomb County Prosecutor, charged with embezzlement, was given a Personal Recognizance (PR) Bond at his arraignment today. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 7:17 am
The alleged abuse occurred under the previous sheriff.For further evidence that county commissioners are where all the policymaking action is, look no further than 90 miles east of Dallas in my hometown of Tyler where the Smith County Commissioners Court has placed unwanted jail bonds on the ballot for the third year in a row. [read post]
7 Apr 2012, 4:16 am
They say it's out of fear that waiting a few months for an election would allow construction costs to rise too dearly, but IMO it's because they've seen jail construction plebiscites in other mid-sized jurisdictions fail - most prominently in Smith County, where voters rejected jails three times before approving a radically scaled down version - and don't want to risk voters nixing the idea. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 5:39 am
Arguably, as in Smith and Harris counties, perhaps the best way voters can convey that message is to reject jail bonds and demand more emphasis on diversion programming before approving new construction debt. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 2:45 pm
Smith County Sheriff J.B. [read post]
