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22 Jan 2018, 2:01 pm
Seven years ago, the commission hit the judge with a private reprimand for the improper jailing of a Caldwell County grandfather, The Statesman reported. [read post]
14 May 2019, 8:25 am
The group claimed Dallas and Harris counties’ bail practices kept people locked up because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
14 May 2019, 8:25 am
The group claimed Dallas and Harris counties’ bail practices kept people locked up because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 4:29 am
See a column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from their president on the topic.Incarcerating poor pregnant women pretrial in Tarrant CountyIn the Star-Telegram, see a story about women taking prenatal classes in the Tarrant County Jail. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 1:11 pm
A few blogworthy odds and ends:Law enforcement wish listLaw enforcement interests gathered in North Texas this week to hash out their collective legislative wish list.Jail pitched as paying for itself losing contractsAdd Dickens County to the list of places that overbuilt their local jails aiming to lease extra space for a profit, only to find taxpayers saddled with sizable debt for a mostly empty facility now that demand for beds is dropping.Can someone please audit metal… [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 2:15 pm
Go to Jail. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 6:01 am
The system may not care about wrongful convictions (Texas has one county, Dallas, with a conviction integrity unit), but inmates do. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 5:56 am
Jails are a major driver of county property taxes. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 1:29 pm
(Dallas County medical examiner Dr. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 1:24 pm
As most of you know, on November 24, 1963, two days after Kennedy's assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 1:58 pm
Motorists in Collin and Dallas Counties, and throughout Texas, will now have fewer protections against having forcible blood draws. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 5:11 am
The Dallas News has a story on the effort, and the pushback.Why jail is a rotten place to send addicted people for medical careThis story of a woman who apparently died of withdrawal symptoms in the Tarrant County Jail demonstrates the folly of attempting to deliver health care services via cops, jails, and prisons.Police union okay with reduced penalties for non-violent offenders, wants maximal arrest powersIn a column in the Waco Tribune Herald, Texas… [read post]
8 May 2019, 10:11 am
An attorney for the Bland family who settled lawsuits against the state and county jail for almost $2 million said he never saw the clip before it was shared by a reporter. [read post]
8 May 2019, 10:11 am
An attorney for the Bland family who settled lawsuits against the state and county jail for almost $2 million said he never saw the clip before it was shared by a reporter. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 6:50 am
De La Garza became a prosecutor with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office under the tenure of John Vance. [read post]
12 May 2013, 6:33 am
Grits expects quite a few candidates and a competitive (if likely underfunded) race.Dallas DA primary promises hot contestTroubled Dallas county commissioner John Wiley Price said Judge John Creuzot should run against District Attorney Craig Watkins in the 2014 primary. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 1:08 pm
That's as big a deal, arguably as important a moment in Harris County's political transformation as was Craig Watkins' upset of District Attorney Bill Hill in Dallas in 2006. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 9:05 am
That's what the billboards say.But in Dallas County, a leader in alcohol-fueled traffic deaths, you may spend little or no time behind bars – even if you kill someone. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 2:58 am
Probably not to judge by a good Dallas News piece today from Holly Becka and Jennifer LaFleur ("Texas youth jail operators have troubled histories" detailing previously unrevealed problems at Texas Youth Commission's contracted care facilities (13 statewide, in all). [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 7:44 am
Since it is a small county, (pop. 20,000) the number of times it has been used is small.So what this tells you is that, despite claims by Dallas County (whose jail is utterly stuffed) that "more research is necessary," big (Travis), medium-sized (Jefferson), and small counties (like Colorado) have all figured out how to make the new law work.From Sparks' description, it wouldn't surprise me if other rural counties are using… [read post]
