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8 Jul 2007, 12:34 pm
I wanted to highlight a few recent Grits posts for my own easy reference and to make sure they made it onto Grits readers radar screens:County Jail Overcrowding SolutionsGrits best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding: Part TwoConsultant: Midland jail should tackle overincarceration by reducing pretrial detentionRookie Dallas jailers work with no training up to six monthsLawsuit moves forward toward quicker competency restorationPrivate PrisonsAG should investigate… [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:45 am
By contrast, Harris County had about 11 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, Tarrant County had about 16 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, and Dallas County, which reported only nine pre-trial misdemeanants in custody, had about 0.38 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 12:35 pm
According to the 10-K:In February 2004, CSC [a company Geo has since purchased] was awarded a contract by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to develop and operate a 1,020 bed detention complex in Frio County, Texas. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 10:22 am
According to the 10-K:In February 2004, CSC [a company Geo has since purchased] was awarded a contract by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to develop and operate a 1,020 bed detention complex in Frio County, Texas. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
On the other hand, the Texas Legislature approved new tools and funding for counties to implement the second and third suggestions on that list from 2005. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 6:40 am
Who would staff new Texas prisons and jails? [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 5:51 am
The Texas Observer blog rounds up some of the remarkably good press Dallas County DA has received for his actions just in the last month:- He launched a public campaign to promote witness cooperation by emphasizing the importance of protection, as part of a larger attempt to build community trust. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 7:50 am
The district wants to divert about 7 percent of the water before it goes into the Red River and absorbs too much salt to be drinkable.The Upper Trinity Regional Water District, which serves Collin, Dallas and Denton counties, also filed for a permit.The Tarrant Regional Water District sued the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Oklahoma Water Conservation Storage Commission to keep the state from automatically dismissing or denying its permits while the matter is in court. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 2:34 am
The can't find enough guards in Dallas, that's for sure.TYC ombudsman under fireMore on this soon, but the Texas Youth Commission's new ombudsman, who happens to be Will Harrell, my former boss from ACLU of Texas, is taking some media-generated heat from politicians who're criticizing his plan for the new office. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 11:40 am
Gillman reports here for the Dallas Morning News; in the Houston Chronicle, Patty Reinert has this story on today's decision which overturned a lower court ruling; and Max Baker reports here for the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. [read post]
24 Jun 2007, 12:39 am
All the Texas prisons built in the 1990s did little to reduce that rate.He argues that Texas is behind in progressive criminal justice reform, and he plans to change that in Dallas. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 1:52 pm
"Millions of dollars would be appropriate," said the attorney from Dallas. [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
County Commissioners are also considering expanding the jail in Huntsville.Hutto Litigation UpdateThe Texas Observer blog has an update on the litigation at the Hutto immigrant family detention facility. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 1:58 am
I'll have more on this in the coming months.Texas Lawyer BlogsThe State Bar of Texas has a list online of Texas lawyer blogs. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 6:13 am
[¶] This agreement is entered into at Dallas, Texas and venue of all disputes concerning this agreement shall be in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 6:09 am
Thanks to StandDown Texas Project, I saw this great column from Craig Watkins, the district attorney of Dallas County, advocating a "smart on crime" philosophy for the criminal justice system. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 9:53 am
I think it's a winner.Via StandDown Texas [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 1:17 am
The 80th Texas Legislature left town without significantly addressing the problem of forensic labs where accuracy increasingly appears to be optional, but that doesn't mean the problem has gone away. [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]
7 Jun 2007, 11:06 pm
," the Galveston County Commissioners Court entered a new cost cutting contract for jail healthcare with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, even though UTMB's healthcare delivery at the Dallas Jail and Texas prisons has been poor and generated lawsuits. [read post]
