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30 Apr 2015, 2:04 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
8 Apr 2012, 6:09 pm by Walter Reaves
Fortunately for the defendants - if you can say someone who spent 16 years in jail for something they didn't do is fortunate - they were convicted in Dallas county; the only county I know of where there is a District Attorney who is concerned with getting it right, and not simply getting convictions. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 1:58 am
Recently they won the contract for the Galveston County jail, and now they're going to begin providing healthcare at a federal prison in Beaumont. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 1:43 am
An inmate broke out of the Bexar County jail with a safety pin. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 6:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" (Then they wonder why Harris County's jail is always full.)It's depressing to me that the political class, including the media, so exclusively focuses on criminal justice solutions to social problems like alcoholism, drug abuse, family violence, etc.. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 5:47 am
"Dallas jail must cut population by 1,000Dallas County must reduce its jail population from 7,000 ton 6,000, or else increase staffing, or the Commission on Jail Standards will make them stop accepting prisoners in three months. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 6:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Your correspondent was briefly quoted in the Dallas News' coverage of the latest annual report from the National Exoneration Registry, available here.Texas saw 54 exonerations in 2015, 42 of which were drug cases from Harris County. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:56 am by [email protected]
He was jailed in Dallas County and is being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 8:56 am by [email protected]
He was jailed in Dallas County and is being held in lieu of $1.25 million bail. [read post]
6 May 2020, 2:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
See their ruling, coverage from the Dallas Morning News, and prior Grits coverage of forensic hypnosis rounded up here.COVID cases in Texas jails continue to skyrocketAs the number of state prisoners diagnosed with COVID continues to rise, so too does the number in county jails. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 5:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The same thing happened to a two separate defendants in the Dallas jail earlier this year and they were both released after a week or so. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 7:46 am by William K. Berenson
 Cody was a senior at McKinney North High School and a member of the Cowboy Church of Collin County. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 12:47 pm
Do not let a missed appointment or simple mistake send you back to jail. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 3:10 pm
On Tuesday, Richardson was being held at the Tarrant County jail in lieu of $75,000 bail on a charge of intoxication assault. [read post]
13 Sep 2013, 8:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the USDOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics, whose count includes thousands of probationers in treatment as well as prisoners in county jails awaiting transfer to TDCJ, parole hearings, etc., did not report declines in Texas' state prisoner population until last year. [read post]
31 May 2012, 7:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Worst case scenario: A year or so after Anderson takes office, Harris County is shipping inmates to Louisiana again and raising taxes to pay for pretrial detention and maybe an expanded jail voters already rejected. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 3:44 pm
Bradford also suggests creating a Conviction Integrity Unit modeled after the one famously created by Dallas DA Craig Watkins.Kuff has only been interviewing Democratic candidates, so we may not see a comparable interview by him of Bradford's GOP opponent, former District Judge Pat Lykos. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 8:18 am by [email protected]
Boykin was subsequently released on a bond of $25,000 from Tarrant County Jail. [read post]