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5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am
As in the rest of the country, incarceration rates per 10,000 residents for the largest Texas cities were on the low side: Travis 21.1, Bexar 29.6, Harris 30.9, Dallas 32.3, Tarrant 31.2, El Paso 14.2.By contrast, the highest incarceration rate was Kenedy County in South Texas, with 225 residents per 10,000 incarcerated. [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:57 am
For those interested, here's a sampling of Grits' writing on competency restoration topics over the last decade: Lege focused on least-bad band aids on mental health, competency and jails Band-aid bills no substitute for competency restoration funding Incompetent Waco defendants in legal limbo Incompetent defendants may wait decades pretrial with no rights, optionsState sending some defendants big bills for competency restoration costs Man deemed incompetent held 20 years… [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 10:26 am
Some investigators who reviewed "officer-involved" shootings failed to interview witnesses or appeared to disregard statements that conflicted with officers' accounts, records show.In at least three of the five investigative reports, officers reviewing shootings accepted explanations from HPD officers even when forensic evidence such as blood spatter patterns, locations of wounds and HPD communication records appeared to conflict with the shooters' defense of their… [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 12:59 pm
San Antonio Jail Sexual Assault on Inmate: Surveillance Video An inmate filed a criminal complaint down in San Antonio against a Bexar County Sheriff’s Department detention deputy, Erick Montez, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in the back of a van during the process of the inmate being moved from the Bexar County Annex to the Bexar County Jail. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 6:36 am
(Harris County's drug cases boosted that number.)Finally, it's worth pointing out one of the final Texas' exonerations of 2015, that of Calvin Day in Bexar County, a doctor charged with sexually assaulting patients in his office. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 5:40 am
In the past five years, the jail diversion program has saved Bexar County more than $50 million. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 6:42 am
Bexar County - 7 deaths 4. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 5:17 am
Among my professional experiences, I have served as a federal court-appointed monitor of conditions in the Texas prison system; have been a consultant to a number of jail systems around the country on issues related to inmate safety; was the drafter of the American Bar Association’s Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners; have been an expert witness and consultant in three lawsuits involving deaths in custody in county jails; worked with the… [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:34 am
But you'd need data broken out in more detail to figure out pay scales under the suggested guidelines.There's lots of detail in this 114-page report (pdf) and Grits may come back to it later, but I wanted to at least get the link out there for folks who're interested.MORE: From the Texas Fair Defense Project, which noted that "According to data collected by TIDC for 2014, appointed attorneys or public defenders in all five of Texas’s most populous… [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 12:13 pm
Here are a few relevant data on inmate visitation from Houston and around the state as reported by James Pinkerton at the Houston Chronicle (Jan. 7)For years, visits have been a frustrating experience at the Harris County Jail, where visitation policies are among the most restrictive of the state's five largest county jails. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 7:17 am
"'Bad traffic law has to go' The San Antonio Express-News had an editorial calling for abolition of the Driver Responsibility Surcharge.Jail phones profit from a 'Captive Audience'The Dallas Observer recently ran a cover feature on Securus and the rise of privatized jail phone service and video visitation at Texas county jails. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:18 am
The main reason is to keep police officers on the street, saving: "each officer the two to four hours squandered in driving a nonviolent misdemeanor suspect to the county jail and going through the booking rigamarole. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 4:13 am
Here are a couple of recent stories about jail diversion programs for the mentally ill in San Antonio and Houston being touted as models (even though the latter hasn't launched yet):Kaiser Health News (Aug. 20): Wrestling with a Texas county's mental health systemHouston Public Media (Aug. 21): Pilot jail diversion program for mentally illThe Bexar program deserves its kudos and I certainly hope the pilot in Harris County fulfills… [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am
Looking at the 8/1/14 county jail population report from the Commission on Jail Standards, misdemeanor, felony, and state jail felony inmates awaiting trial accounted for 57 percent of Bexar jail inmates, which is right around the statewide average. [read post]
7 May 2014, 2:42 pm
Bexar County jail population decliningSo says this TV news report.Hearne cop shot 93-year old womanReported the Waco Tribune Herald, "Authorities are investigating the shooting of a 93-year-old woman by a Hearne police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of a Hearne man in December 2012. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 7:00 am
Here's a notable excerpt from their findings on Texas:The North Texas State Hospital, with 692 beds, is the largest remaining state psychiatric hospital. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 7:23 am
Here are a few items that caught Grits' attention this week but haven't made it into independent posts:Covering Texas DA's racesSee coverage of DA's races in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, and Bexar Counties.' [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 10:00 am
Travis jail eliminates in-person visitation, profits from video contractThe Travis County Jail has switched exclusively to video visitation, eliminating face-to-face visits with inmates by friends and family, reported the Austin Statesman. [read post]
10 Nov 2013, 9:48 am
However, the collections letters from the Bexar County DA threaten arrest, jail and criminal prosecution." [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 3:05 pm
The result: county jail cost overruns is causing property tax hikes with no end in sight. [read post]
