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9 Sep 2015, 11:01 am
Example: there’s a big lawsuit that was filed earlier this year against a Dallas contractor and Travis County (that’s Austin) — seems that lawyer chats with Travis County inmates may have been routinely recorded since 2012. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 4:47 pm
Grits earlier offered my own rebuttal to the piece.Too many jails get loophole in bill requiring in-person visitation The bill to preserve in-person visitation at county jails was a bit of a mess, reported the Dallas News, leaving room for counties to game the system and pretend they're already invested in new systems to get in under an arbitrary deadline. [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 11:50 am
Jackson had the jailhouse snitch’s testimony that Baldree confessed that he had done the killings while they were both incarcerated at the Navarro County Jail. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 1:28 pm
Dallas Police Face Unfair Discipline, Stress: Officers in the Dallas Police Department have been taking longer to respond to 911 calls, partly due to officers being "mentally beaten down," according to the head of the Dallas Police Association. [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 10:25 am
” According to the Dallas Mornign News, "In the state fiscal year that ends this month, 29 people have died by suicide in Texas jails. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 12:48 pm
But nobody's yet resigned or been fired at the Waller County Jail after Sandra Bland's alleged suicide. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 2:26 pm
Here in Dallas, and probably most of Texas, the death of Sandra Bland in a jail cell over in Waller County is a tragedy and a mystery that is still being investigated. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 2:45 pm
In the Dallas area, the death of a woman in a Waller County jail cell has sparked a protest in the city and elsewhere in the country. [read post]
19 Jul 2015, 4:50 pm
If nothing else, counties for the first time can learn how many cases attorneys in their jurisdiction are taking in other counties. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm
President Obama delivered a major speech in Philadelphia today on federal criminal justice reform initiatives. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 5:35 am
Here's an odd development: The Harris County Jail is so full they're having to ship inmates to contract beds in other counties, while the Dallas County Jail population has plummeted.Dallas County Jail population drops to all-time low[Harris] County Jail shipping inmates to Beaumont lockup A DOJ statistician told the Morning News that "Texas’ entire jail population has been in… [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 3:01 pm
Get caught with any amount of heroin in your possession, custody, or control – think dust particles, even — is a crime tied to serious jail time. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 12:30 pm
At any given time, 30 to 35 percent of jail inmates in the San Luis Obispo County Jail are AB 109 inmates. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 7:46 am
Cody was a senior at McKinney North High School and a member of the Cowboy Church of Collin County. [read post]
5 Jun 2015, 7:20 am
Jail phone calls and the Michael Morton Act If a jail records all inmate phone calls are prosecutors required to vet them for Brady material under the Michael Morton Act? [read post]
27 May 2015, 8:30 am
In Dallas, Police Chief David Brown announced this week that officers who improperly turn off their body cams face severe discipline.Pushback begins on in-person visitation billThis was predictable: Jails that switched to video only visitation only don't want to go back to offering in-person visits because it would cost them money. [read post]
23 May 2015, 6:55 am
A Dallas News editorial last weekend explained why it's urgent that the bill pass this session:More and more counties will build or retrofit their jails to prevent inmates and their families from being together in the same space.Why? [read post]
20 May 2015, 11:11 am
Same thing with prosecution witness, Cooke County Sheriff Compton. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 2:04 pm
Here's a good overview of legislation, litigation and activism on the topic.Legislation sitting in Calendars waiting for a House floor vote would require county jails using video visitation to also offer in-person visitation, as they did for generations prior.As far as I can tell, nearly all medical marijuana testimony qualifies as "tearful. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 5:14 pm
As of Sunday, he was arrested and taken to Dallas County Jail, where he was charged with intoxication assault. [read post]
