Search for: "State of Texas Bexar County Jail"
Results 81 - 100
of 196
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
1 Feb 2011, 6:40 am
Relatedly, the San Antonio Express-News had a story yesterday on budget shortfalls at the Bexar County Law Library that surely mirror difficulties faced by local law libraries statewide. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 3:14 am
"See prior, related Grits coverage: Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetJail deaths implicate state oversight, competency restoration fundingMental health cuts by state would shift costs to local jails, emergency rooms'Harris County jail not the place to treat mental illness' The making of an unfunded mandate: Cuts to mental health would dump costs on county… [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 6:02 am
Bills up in committee today and tomorrow aim to treat some mentally ill defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial in county jails instead of state mental hospitals. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 9:36 am
State , a case of first impression, Cheves Ligon, of counsel at the Bexar County Appellate Public Defender's Office, will argue on Meadoux's behalf Sept. 15 before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 2:04 am
The last vote, in November, turned down a new jail by a margin of 69%-31%.Still, local officials won't take advantage of a new state law designed to reduce jail overcrowding, despite voters' clear desire that they find alternatives to incarcerating low-level offenders. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 12:14 pm
Prosecutors at the Examining Trial Each county in Texas has a district attorney’s office where attorneys prosecute felony criminal matters on behalf of the State of Texas. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 7:15 am
We think the solution must include an acceptance of all sources of help, from federal funding to local volunteers.Simply turning a blind eye to problems created by cuts is not acceptable.See prior, related Grits posts:Cuts to state mental hospitals would be massive unfunded mandate for county jails Lubbock considers in-house competency restoration for mentally ill defendants Mentally ill languish in Bexar jail awaiting assessment, competency restoration… [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
"Currently, though, pretrial inmates make up nearly half of the state's jail population, according to monthly data collected by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 8:29 am
”Of the nearly 1,200 mental health defendants in the Montgomery County Jail annually, roughly 600 are indigent, Perez said. [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 7:47 am
Operation North Star in Harris County began in April 2017 and the San Antonio Violent Crime Task Force (Operation Alamo) in San Antonio and Bexar County began in January 2017, with DPS joining the operation in May 2017. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:32 am
See prior, related Grits coverage:Few bills proposed at Lege to remedy statewide competency restoration crisis Budget cuts would force police officers, jails to care for mentally ill Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetJail deaths implicate state oversight, competency restoration fundingMental health cuts by state would shift costs to local jails, emergency rooms'Harris County… [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 2:14 am
"We have so many of them here and the state leaves them here a long time," said David Soward, chief deputy of the Atascosa County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 7:31 am
The report noted a majority of violent crimes in urban areas were committed by offenders who had been released from jail; 75 percent in Harris County, 68 percent in Dallas County, and 62 percent in Bexar County. [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]
30 Mar 2012, 7:00 am
"The short timelines set forth in the court's order makes it physically, fiscally and logistically impossible for DSHS to comply and indicates a lack of appreciation for the magnitude of the task and the complications inherent in implementing the terms of the order," the state wrote in its motion.The attorney general has also appealed the ruling with the state's 3rd Court of Appeals.See prior, related Grits posts:BSG (Broke State Goverment) seeking… [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 2:52 pm
As not all Texas counties have operating websites, counsel should contact the courts in those counties by telephone. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 9:55 am
This means police officers from SAPD and Bexar County will begin descending upon people’s homes, offices, job sites or anywhere in public they can be found, with warrants, to make arrests and transport non-payers to jail. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am
But the USDOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics, whose count includes thousands of probationers in treatment as well as prisoners in county jails awaiting transfer to TDCJ, parole hearings, etc., did not report declines in Texas' state prisoner population until last year. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 4:36 pm
But limited beds at the local and regional level have forced Lubbock County inmates to sit in jail, oftentimes for years, with no conviction and no treatment.One county inmate allegedly spent seven years in Lubbock's jail awaiting trial because of a lack of competency restoration services, which is far and away the longest I've ever heard of anybody waiting for a forensic bed at Texas state mental hospitals. [read post]
14 Apr 2013, 11:16 am
Ramirez at the time was in charge of running the Starr County Jail. [read post]
