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9 Sep 2017, 8:42 am
That should have been the case after inmates were stranded during Hurricanes Katrina (New Orleans) and Ike (Galveston). [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 7:43 pm
Nordahl, 49, is being held in the Galveston County Jail. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
In Harris County, judges have used their discretion to send those defendants to county jail for up to six months as a condition of their probation.According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (pdf), 1,102 state jail felons were sentenced to county jail terms as a probation condition as of May 1 - more than the number of new private beds for which the county just contracted. [read post]
30 May 2008, 6:37 am
"I don't want to erroneously put anybody in jail," the chief said.Officials in Galveston and Brazoria County deserve extra credit in my book for their decision to drop low-level drug case that relied missing evidence or tainted officer testimony, particularly with so many exonerations peppering recent headlines. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 3:14 am
Palm Beach County jail records indicate that close to eighty percent of current inmates have served time in that jail previously. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 1:15 pm
Galveston County’s pretrial process at the time. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 1:15 pm
Galveston County’s pretrial process at the time. [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 10:18 am
District Judge Samuel Kent ordered his release, the same federal appeals court that threw out his capital murder conviction ordered that he remain in the Burleson County Jail. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 9:08 pm
He was being held in Galveston County jail on $60,000 bond. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
That includes Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, Collin, Denton, Fort Bend, Cameron, Nueces, Montgomery, Jefferson, Galveston, Williamson, Lubbock, Brazoria, Bell, and McLennan Counties, as of the 2000 Census. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
Federal judges branded Harris County’s bail practices as unconstitutional after a lawsuit was launched by inmates at Harris County Jail. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
Federal judges branded Harris County’s bail practices as unconstitutional after a lawsuit was launched by inmates at Harris County Jail. [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 7:56 am
Anthony Graves, who the Texas Innocence Network says is innocent, must remain in the Burleson County Jail until Jan. 4 before he can post bail with the federal court in Galveston, according to a ruling issued late Monday by the 5th U.S. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 11:42 am
"Galveston inmates get to readIn Galveston, a lawsuit brought by the Prison Legal News and the Texas Civil Rights Project has been settled overturning a policy of disallowing reading material to jail inmates and beefing up the jail law library.Piling On: Newspapers don't like John Bradley The Austin Statesman and the San Antonio Express News have joined the Houston Chronicle in editorializing against Williamson County DA John Bradley's… [read post]
27 Mar 2020, 10:16 am
Within a week’s time, COVID-19 was been confirmed at Lychner State Jail near Houston, as well as at the Holliday Unit in Huntsville and at the Dallas County Jail. [read post]
19 Jan 2019, 6:38 am
John Whitmire suggested the state should take over the Harris County Jail after its fifth suicide in recent years. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 1:52 pm
But some counties simply scaled back to multi-agency drug task forces among agencies in the same county - which are not regulated by DPS - and those continue to crop up as sources of corruption and ineptitude.Understaffing and jail suicidesSee a must-read piece by Michael Barajas at the SA Current titled "Dead in Seven Hours: When overdosed meets overworked, Bexar County Jail's fatal flaws come to light." [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 8:43 am
Letting folks sit around in jail because they're too poor to pay just isn't good enough, anymore. [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 9:13 am
Galveston jailThe Galveston County Jail faces new federal litigation alleging that several recent inmate deaths resulted from sub-par medical care.Commissary theftA former Milam County Sheriff's Office captain has been convicted of stealing from the inmate commissary fund. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm
[Jesse] Jacobs' death was not the first time the jail has been scrutinized for its medical care of inmates: The jail ran afoul of state jail regulators in 2013, when inspectors found that the county was not dispensing medication as doctors had ordered. [read post]
