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14 Feb 2011, 5:12 am
This is an issue that will continue to vex Texas jails as long as there are waiting lists for competency restoration services.The death in Corpus Christi may raise additional questions about conditions and treatment of prisoners at the Nueces County Jail. [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 3:11 pm
Juneau County Jail, 2011 U.S. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:45 am
Harris County's government is in its worst budget crisis in decades, and Lykos and all other county department heads have been ordered to present plans to reduce their spending by 10 percent. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 12:49 pm
News reports indicate that over 13,000 drivers in Harris County were charged with DWI last year. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 2:50 pm
This week's episode of NBC's "Harry's Law" featured a wrongful murder conviction based on a false confession. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 3:00 am
Given Texas law, he's lucky he wasn't shot to death by a neighbor. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:18 am
Here are a few other topline observations from the report:Oddly, Dallas has a larger probation population than Harris County despite a smaller overall population, perhaps because Harris' revocation rates are higher. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 9:39 am
Houston Chronicle by Susan Carroll After a Harris County jury awarded the family of a 21-year-old garbage collector more than $1.4 million in a wrongful death lawsuit, the penalized company filed an appeal based on an unusual legal argument. [read post]
30 Jan 2011, 8:55 am
Mandatory JJAEP reimbursement reduced from $79 to $59.Funding eliminated for Harris County juvenile boot camp.In addition, drug court grants from the Governor's office would be cut by more than half, and counties will be required to pay a fee for inspections by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, to replace the zeroed out line item where the state used to pay for them. [read post]
30 Jan 2011, 5:35 am
A professional photographer and artist once told me the story about trying to photograph his mother. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 9:13 am
A Nigerian prison guard has sued TDCJ complaining that racial discrimination was behind his firing over a false allegation of sexual misconduct.The Texas Tribune has a story about thousands of rape kits sitting around untested at Texas police crime labs.I failed last week to link to an interview in the Houston Chronicle with Alex Bunin, the new Harris County public defender.The Los Angeles Times has a feature on the nascent phenomenon of movement conservatives… [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 1:04 pm
Harry Henderson. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 6:40 am
" (MORE: From the Innocence Blog.)Cuts to mental health would burden local jailsAn analysis by Harris County of the proposed Texas House budget found that "cuts would transfer the burden onto a county government already contemplating hundreds of layoffs. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 7:54 am
Nowhere is that more evident than on mental health spending.See prior, related Grits posts:'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 jails Cuts to state mental hospitals would be massive unfunded mandate for county jailsMentally ill languish in Bexar jail awaiting assessment, competency restoration Cuts to state mental health treatment would shift costs… [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 1:52 pm
Well the misdemeanor judges of Harris County, Texas seem to have gotten together and made their own resolution for 2011...a slimmer docket for each of their courts. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 8:50 am
Two executions have been scheduled before then, including Timothy Adams of Harris County, and two others are slated for May and July. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 6:20 am
” Sabina Muhammed was convicted of violating § 33.02(a) and sentenced to “180 days confinement in the Harris County Jail, probated for two years. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 11:09 am
The Real Reason for Abolition: Texas Poses Greatest Risk of Executing an Innocent By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair For two days in December of last year Harris County Criminal District Court Judge Kevin Fine allowed attorneys representing accused capital murderer John Edward Green to present evidence that the process for carrying out the death penalty in this state is so flawed that it creates an unconstitutional risk that an… [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 9:32 am
Earlier coverage of the Harris County hearing begins at the link. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 3:38 am
The general appropriations bill is typically filed in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, and a similar summary of the Senate version will be sent when it becomes available. [read post]
