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28 Dec 2010, 8:37 am
Around the state, reporters and local officials are waking up to a sleeper issue that this blog has been sounding the alarm about for years: The danger posed to county budgets, especially local jails, by cuts in the number of state mental hospital beds and mental health care generally - an issue likely to reach a critical stage if state hospitals are cut further next spring by the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
1 May 2007, 10:54 am
Now the bill heads to the Senate where I and probably most county sheriffs running overcrowded jails in the state hope it gets a favorable reception. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 9:42 am
He smuggled a hacksaw blade into an inmate at the Bexar County Detention Center inside a soft taco. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:45 am
" Recently I offered a similar prescription for Bexar County's jail overcrowding woes. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:26 am
For those who couldn't attend the event, handouts from presenters at the Bexar County symposium on jail overcrowding a couple of weeks ago in San Antonio have been posted online (see here).A couple of different speakers in SA focused on the new authority granted to Texas police officers in 2007 to give citations instead of making arrests for certain low-level, non-violent misdemeanors - that was HB 2391, for those keeping score at home. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
In Bexar County, some of the regular polling locations, such as the county courthouse and several schools, were not eligible because they require mask wearing, and election officials in Texas may not require voters to wear masks. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 7:51 am
Good news for local officials managing understaffed and overcrowded jails - the 80th Texas Legislature's best chance to assist counties with the crisis in local jail overcrowding, HB 2391 by Madden, passed on second reading this afternoon on the House floor on a voice vote. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:23 am
Here are the incarceration rates for pretrial detainees at Texas' largest county jails: What percentage of Texas county jail inmates are awaiting trial? [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am
As in the rest of the country, incarceration rates per 10,000 residents for the largest Texas cities were on the low side: Travis 21.1, Bexar 29.6, Harris 30.9, Dallas 32.3, Tarrant 31.2, El Paso 14.2.By contrast, the highest incarceration rate was Kenedy County in South Texas, with 225 residents per 10,000 incarcerated. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 7:54 am
Nowhere is that more evident than on mental health spending.See prior, related Grits posts:'Harris County jail not the place to treat mental illness' The making of an unfunded mandate: Cuts to mental health would dump costs on county jails Cuts to state mental hospitals would be massive unfunded mandate for county jailsMentally ill languish in Bexar jail awaiting assessment, competency restoration Cuts to… [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 12:13 pm
Here are a few relevant data on inmate visitation from Houston and around the state as reported by James Pinkerton at the Houston Chronicle (Jan. 7)For years, visits have been a frustrating experience at the Harris County Jail, where visitation policies are among the most restrictive of the state's five largest county jails. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
Twenty months ago I authored a post entitled "Grits' best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding," which to this day is one of the items most often hit via search engine from this blog.All of those remain good ideas, but with the passage of the 80th Texas Legislature and having been tracking the issue in detail since then, I can now substantively add to those suggestions to create a "Part Two" of the list.But first, let's look quickly at… [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:18 am
Most of Texas' large counties save two saw their number of annual probation revocations decline or remain flat between 2005 to 2010, according to a December report on the state diversion programs (pdf) from TDCJ to state leadership. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 4:37 am
People beat up on the daily press, including me sometimes, but we all rely on them.Ignored to DeathFrom Michael Barajas at the Texas Observer: "Ignored to death at the Bexar County Jail. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 2:48 am
Bexar launched their jail diversion center planning when the 78th Texas Legislature cut $8 million from the budget for treating mentally ill in jail in 2003. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 5:11 am
This blog has long criticized the state's de facto use of county jails as mental health wards, and particularly Texas' failure to provide timely "competency restoration" services when a defendant is deemed incompetent to stand trial. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am
Looking at the 8/1/14 county jail population report from the Commission on Jail Standards, misdemeanor, felony, and state jail felony inmates awaiting trial accounted for 57 percent of Bexar jail inmates, which is right around the statewide average. [read post]
8 May 2017, 10:15 am
Detainers, now mandatory under state law, will clog our jails. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 4:54 am
As it stands, Texas counties are getting most of Harris County's overflow jail business even though there are cheaper cells for rent out of state. ... [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 10:39 am
But Valdez's reign has been disappointing, so I'd be open to hearing more specifics from Cannady to convince me he has a vision of where to take the department and how to get there.I've seen virtually no coverage of the Bexar County Sheriff's race, but the clear choice in terms of what's best for the county and its jail overcrowding crisis would be Dennis McKnight, the GOP candidate and former First Assistant Bexar County… [read post]
