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30 Aug 2014, 2:53 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"Texas Prison Bidness (Aug. 28): "Liberty County hires consultant to look into who should run the jail"Texas Prison Bidness (Aug. 12): "Grasping at straws, Littlefield seeks California prison contract? [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 5:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
") In both Dallas and Travis Counties, astonishingly, 73 percent of jail inmates incarcerated on that day were there awaiting trial as of August 1.Even so, I stand by my assessment that the number of pretrial defendants could be reasonably lowered to at least half or less of the overall jail population in Texas' larger counties. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Tellingly, as reported by the Dallas Morning News, when two other Republican district attorneys were convicted of drunk driving, convicted and jailed in not dissimilar situations from Ms. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 8:53 am
Dallas County again leads the cringe-worthy list of where your chance of being hit by a noninsured driver is the greatest. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 11:38 am by Michael Lowe
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins Dallas DA was found in contempt of court for not giving testimony at a hearing into his possible prosecutorial misconduct by District Court Judge Lena Levario because he refused to testify in her courtroom at a hearing on possible prosecutorial misconduct in the filing of mortgage fraud criminal charges against Al Hill III. 2. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 5:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
If he'd been incarcerated on a life sentence like Ed Graf (who won a new trial, delayed until September while the DA looks for their lost files, and is now sitting in the McLennan County Jail), sadly I doubt the national press would blink an eye. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 11:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Price for years acted as a self-appointed czar of the Dallas County Jail as well as the county bail bond board, so there's a particular irony in his present situation. [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 2:03 pm by Michael Lowe
First things first, the recent arrest of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is a big deal here in Dallas. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 9:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This week, the office of Craig Watkins, the Dallas County district attorney, announced that Phillips, 57, was going to join their ranks. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 6:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Austin and El Paso also process cases much more rapidly on the front end.According to the Dallas News (June 29), though, some other counties allow even longer waits than Dallas:Fort Worth police, for example, take suspects to their jail and then Mansfield’s jail until the county accepts the charge. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 4:05 pm by Michael Lowe
Automatic State Jail Felony Probation for most State Jail Drug cases under article 481 of the Health and Safety Code 3. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 11:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Here are several articles I've run across that merit readers' attention:Yourhoustonnews.com: Texas has nowhere but prison for most mentally ill convictsFort Worth Star-Telegram: State mental health program is in crisis, requiring immediate actionKilleen Daily Herald: Analysis: Pay for mental health or pay for jailerHouston Chronicle: Texas Department of State Health Services is in a crisis and needs attentionDallas Observer: Texas increased mental health funding but Dallas… [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 2:01 pm by Michael Lowe
As a former chief prosecutor of an Assault family violence court in Dallas County, I can assure you that the offers will get better. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 10:11 am by Lowell Brown
Rob Kepple, executive director of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association, told the Texas Tribune last month that he’d heard from several counties that “documentation has been a strain. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 11:32 am by Clint Broden
An example is former Dallas Cowboy Josh Brent who last week asked a Dallas County judge to let him serve the rest of a jail sentence in a treatment facility. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 11:32 am by Clint
An example is former Dallas Cowboy Josh Brent who last week asked a Dallas County judge to let him serve the rest of a jail sentence in a treatment facility. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 2:42 pm by Michael Lowe
The feds like to use state charges to hold folks in jail until they are ready to either unseal a sealed indictment or file a Federal Complaint. [read post]
15 Jun 2014, 9:51 am by Ann Schober
The appeal was brought by a Dallas County, Alabama, man who was charged with engaging in consensual sodomy with another man and ultimately sentenced to 12 months in jail for "sexual misconduct. [read post]