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19 Feb 2015, 2:35 pm
Credit: Gregg County Jail Longview, TX — A 7-week-old baby was seriously injured by what police believe was a drunk driver. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 5:56 am
Jails are a major driver of county property taxes. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 8:15 am
WFAA has a story on four women who are the first of their gender elected District Attorney in Dallas, Tarrant, Rockwall and Kaufman Counties, to which you could add Harris County (where both parties nominated women). [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 11:01 am
The documents were sealed, although we know Epstein agreed to plead guilty and serve 18 months in a county jail, and that there has been a recent fight to unseal the file. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 5:44 am
The Dallas Morning News today published a column authored by your correspondent arguing that the Texas Lege could reduce the tax burden for local county jails by reducing penalties for two nonviolent offenses: low-level pot possession and subsequent offenses of driving with an invalid license. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 1:45 pm
Since November, more than 400 criminals have been released from Los Angeles County after their felony crimes were reduced to misdemeanors. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 1:30 am
John Attanasio, 60, was booked into the Collin County jail Sunday. [read post]
25 Jan 2015, 8:12 am
Cooper was charged with 'criminal provocation' and was escorted to the county jail, and then held for 11 hours before being allowed to leave. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 6:28 pm
(Image: Penn State University Archives)To mark this day, I thought I would draw on the connection between Penn State University and the Rev. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:34 am
But you'd need data broken out in more detail to figure out pay scales under the suggested guidelines.There's lots of detail in this 114-page report (pdf) and Grits may come back to it later, but I wanted to at least get the link out there for folks who're interested.MORE: From the Texas Fair Defense Project, which noted that "According to data collected by TIDC for 2014, appointed attorneys or public defenders in all five of Texas’s most populous counties… [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 1:48 pm
See, “Dallas County Marijuana Arrests: In 2015, Dallas Police Not Busting For Pot. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 8:27 am
Many of the episodes at PDs are shootings or other killings in the field while taking suspects into custody; Sheriffs' numbers are more likely to represent deaths in the county jail. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 12:12 pm
A few years back, Dallas County was scandalized by a big, national news story about how innocent folk were being jailed on fake drug charges by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 6:59 am
Jail privatization has already been a financial albatross for the county, but, if true, these allegations and the process of proving them in court might turn public opinion against the county's jail contracts more viscerally. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 8:02 am
In addition, "The Brazos County Sheriff's Office has outfitted its patrol and courthouse deputies with body cameras, and Sheriff Chris Kirk said last month that jail staff is also testing the gear. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 3:31 pm
She sits in jail charged with capital murder. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 7:17 am
"'Bad traffic law has to go' The San Antonio Express-News had an editorial calling for abolition of the Driver Responsibility Surcharge.Jail phones profit from a 'Captive Audience'The Dallas Observer recently ran a cover feature on Securus and the rise of privatized jail phone service and video visitation at Texas county jails. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 8:34 am
Both Velez and his girlfriend were charged in Angel’s death.Before the trial, Velez had waited in the Cameron County Jail for three years, seldom visited by his court-appointed attorneys who assured him that they were working to build his defense. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 7:39 am
Elizabeth Campbell, Star-Telegram, Nov. 26: "Johnson County settles jailing lawsuit: Man was falsely imprisoned, denied access to lawyer"Chuck Lindell, Austin Statesman, Nov. 29: "Will Fran and Dan Keller be exonerated? [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 2:42 pm
Consider Harris County District Attorney: Notices Sent of 100s of Wrongful Convictions appeared first on Dallas Justice. [read post]
