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21 Feb 2012, 11:54 am
The wag who notified me of this via email added that this is "another way to keep the McLennan County Jail full. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 12:51 pm
The Austin-based Texas Civil Rights Project has filed suit against the McLennan County jail to stop its practice of strip searching inmates. [read post]
15 Jan 2016, 6:42 am
First, seven of the deaths in recent months have come from just three counties - Webb, McLennan and Fort Bend. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 8:10 am
Just to update a topic Grits has been tracking recently, the McLennan County Commissioners voted against privatizing their local jail.UPDATE: The Texas Commission on Jail Standards meets in Austin tomorrow (Thursday, Aug. 7 - here's the agenda) and will hear an update on McLennan's appeal of a TCJS remedial order that's driving commissioners' push for expanding jail capacity.See prior, related Grits posts:Commissioner wants off… [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 9:19 am
Another county struggling with jail overcrowding - McLennan (Waco is the county seat) - wants to find alternatives to incarceration instead of building a new jail, reports the Waco Tribune Herald ("County officials consider a technological solution to jail overcrowding" Sept. 26). [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 2:13 pm
When I saw that an inmate recently hanged himself in the Waller County Jail - the same jail in which Sandra Bland died - on a hunch, I checked to see if Waller has failed its last jail inspection. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 8:20 am
After previously vowing with his colleagues to consider only privatization-centered options as solutions to McLennan County's jail overcrowding problem, Commissioner Joe Mashek reversed course this week and called for ending the use of privatized jails, reported the Waco Herald Tribune ("Idea of county-run facilities debated as solution to overcrowding," July 30):Mashek's proposal would see the county again running the… [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 8:01 am
The tax hikes are instead going to pay for McLennan County's jail, which commissioners foolishly expanded hoping to house contract prisoners, then couldn't find inmates to fill the beds. [read post]
6 May 2010, 8:35 am
Standard & Poors Rating Services gave the McLennan County Public Facility Corp. a AA- rating for the jail project. [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 5:19 am
Statewide, according to the Commission on Jail Standards, about a third of county jail beds were empty as of March 1. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 4:54 pm
For a county paying through the nose to house jail inmates they can't afford, this seems like an odd and counter-productive choice; from the Waco Tribune-Herald (Dec. 14): An ongoing McLennan County Sheriff’s Office investigation into indigent defense fraud resulted in an arrest Friday. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 5:19 am
There's a takeaway lesson from this episode that one would think should resonate with fiscal conservatives: Smaller government costs less; jails are government; therefore smaller jails cost less.Indeed, one need only look at the jail fiascos in McLennan and Johnson Counties - where private companies convinced commissioners to build large facilities they didn't need that now sit empty with no contracts to pay the bond debt - to see the mess… [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 9:28 am
The Harris County Jail ain't for nothing the largest mental health institution in the state. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm
”Will defendants in McLennan County pay through the nose, or will this result in clogged dockets, demands for trials, or even pleas to jail sentences? [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 4:53 pm
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News Crime Blog reports that the new Dallas County budget includes provisions to close one of the county's five jails to save money on staffing costs.This should be a cautionary tale for communities like Smith County (Tyler) to the East of Dallas or McLennan (Waco) to the South which hope to solve overcrowding problems by expanding capacity. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 8:45 am
Reyna's ill-considered plea-bargain policies boosted costs at the county jail which put the squeeze on the commissioners court to reduce his budget. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 5:39 am
And unnecessary jail expansion is frequently a major driver of local tax hikes, as voters in McLennan County could well attest.Once a jail is built, it can be expensive to staff the extra space, creating ongoing budget burdens beyond just paying back the debt. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:14 am
Yesterday I'd written about the ugly finances underlying the all-but-empty Jack Harwell Detention Center in McLennan County, and it made me realize that right now there are quite a few jail and prison facilities out there - many owned by counties - that overbuilt banking on ever-growing inmate populations that haven't materialized and now appear unlikely.Here's the list of private or public-private jails or prisons I could come up with off… [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:05 pm
I have posted before about the jail situation in McLennan County, and the discussion about whether to turn it over to a private entity. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 2:51 pm
Via Texas Prison Bidness:#1: Closure of Dawson State Jail and Mineral Wells Pre-Parole Transfer Facility#2: City of McAllen rejects GEO Group prison for immigrants#3: The campaign to expose and close the Polk Detention Center#4: Two North Texas counties stand tall, reject jail privatization#5: Troubles persist at McLennan County's speculatively built private jailRELATED: See Grits' list of the Top Ten Texas Criminal Justice Stories of 2013. [read post]
