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10 Sep 2009, 12:30 am
I'm particularly pleased to see this story about an in-jail job fair sponsored by a religious nonprofit in cooperation with Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 5:15 am
Travis County opened a massive new jail wing last week with 1,336 beds, though those will mostly replace so-called "variance" beds that the state Commission on Jail Standards previously authorized with temporary waivers to accommodate of jail overcrowding. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 11:57 am
But in this case, Travis County faces none of those pressures.Commissioners Shea and Travillion want to build a jail because the Sheriff wants it, not because the county needs one. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:53 pm
Travis County ranks 39th among US counties in population but "ranks 11th nationally in the number of people deported from its jails since Secure Communities came online here in June 2009," according to an Austin Statesman report. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 6:33 am
When the Travis County Jail installed video visitation technology and ceased the practice of in-person visitation, they promised that attorneys conversations wouldn't be recorded. [read post]
25 Aug 2007, 5:31 am
In Travis County (Austin), "The Sheriff's Department estimates booking people caught with four ounces or less cost more than $1 million in 2006," reports KVUE-TV.That doesn't even include thousands of other low-level, non-violent misdemeanants who cycle in and out of the county jail. [read post]
1 May 2014, 6:15 am
Except Travis County jail. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 5:45 am
"Obtaining a criminal conviction or serving jail time ... will not resolve the problems underlying the offense," said Travis County Constable Maria Canchola. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 8:55 am
Travis was taken to jail. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 1:17 pm
Everyone who is arrested in Travis County is taken to the central booking facility downtown. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 12:37 pm
In Travis County, a federal jury declared that, although jailers weren't the "proximate" cause of Rachel Jackson's death, but there were areas where the county's operation of its jail needs to improve. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 7:41 am
Deportation Nation As an Activist Anthropology student at the University of Texas Cato studies the Travis County Sheriff’s Department. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 9:13 pm
And yet in Travis County, twice as many people have been deported after a misdemeanor arrest in recent years than have been deported after a felony arrest, according to an American-Statesman analysis of ICE and Travis County Jail data. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 9:47 am
" There are several issues in play here, but the one that interests me the most is this: how does the Travis County Jail (or I should say Sheriff’s Office) make the initial determination that someone is – or may be – an illegal immigrant? [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 9:31 pm
"According to the groups, 82 percent of deportations of jail inmates through a federal fingerprint-sharing program in Travis County were of "noncriminals," such as those with no violent histories. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 8:37 am
I'd somehow missed news of this recent protest at the local jail, but here in Travis County, reported The Daily Texan ("Workers rights group pickets Travis County Jail," March 19), Sheriff Greg Hamilton faces increasing political pressure to scale back his department's expanded collaboration with the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service"We are presenting a letter today to the Travis… [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 7:22 am
As mentioned recently, Travis County has the highest rate of pretrial detention for low-level offenses among large Texas counties - 24% of Travis County jail inmates are misdemeanants or state jail felons, compared to a statewide average of 10%.Mindy Montford backed an idea for 24-hour ADA coverage to work more quickly process cases as they come in. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 5:04 am
Travis County provides a telephone job matching services and on-site job fairs to inmates while in jail. [read post]
4 May 2008, 2:26 am
The Travis County Jail is perennially overcrowded, but the Sheriff says he would be "derelict" if he didn't voluntarily pursue policies that worsened the problem. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 3:06 pm
By Bo Kalabus bo@kalabuslaw.com www.kalabuslaw.com www.rosenthalwadas.com Office: 972-562-7549 24 Hour Jail Release 214-402-4364 According to numerous reports, county music singer Randy Travis has been arrested for DWI in nearby Grayson County Texas. [read post]
