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3 Apr 2017, 8:05 am
Harris County in Texas had the highest number of exonerations in the country. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 8:05 am
Harris County in Texas had the highest number of exonerations in the country. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 5:28 am
Here are a few odds and ends that didn't make it into full blog posts in the last few days:Melissa del Bosque at the Texas Observer visits "the deadliest place in Mexico" outside of Juarez and it sounds like the aftermath of Sherman's march.The Burnet County Sheriff wants to reclaim managerial control of the county jail, currently operated by LaSalle Corrections, in the wake of a recent escape. [read post]
25 May 2018, 3:10 am
Lots of drug busts are done by the local police or by county sheriff’s deputies. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 11:45 am
Quite a few news pieces caught Grits' attention recently that could each easily inspire its own blog post, but since I don't have nearly enough time to devote, let me just point readers to these criminal justice stories from the MSM:Experts question dozens of arson convictions, ABC News, Aug. 20Accomplice law led to execution set for today, Houston Chronicle, Aug. 20Texas adopts 'Blue Alert' for copkillers, Houston Chronicle, Aug. 18Dallas DA to start rejecting most cases without… [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 9:17 pm
Prosecutors in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties never set up a system to process the misdemeanor citations and, they say, they have no plans to do so. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 10:19 am
If I were the Dallas Sheriff, I'd oppose this bill until the local jail problem is fixed. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 6:25 am
They also raised in passing an interesting notion Grits hadn't considered in years - that state jails were created as a separate entity from the formal prison system in order to take these prisoners out from under prison oversight litigation:An interesting side note: one of the reasons the state jail system was created was to ease overcrowding in the prison system and the county jails. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 7:04 am
Don’t go trying to out-death Texas.Meanwhile, let’s get back to the issue of men convicted of assault being able to sneak weapons into courtrooms:The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, which oversees the jail where Anguiano is housed, said inmates are given a razor blade to shave with each night. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 11:30 am
Many of them lingered in jail for several months, which presumably lost their job, it had huge economic effects. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 8:17 am
(Usually, unless family gets involved, inmate deaths receive no MSM attention at all.)Silver thinks the much-touted drop in county jail suicides merits "top" status, but these small numbers vary widely from year to year and Grits thinks it's WAY too early for the state (or the media on their behalf) to claim credit for fixing that problem - certainly if the change in a bureaucratic form is the only thing to which anyone can attribute the drop. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 11:43 am
The blog Hair Balls adds that the probation officer was found out when the boy bragged to a friend.Because Texas county jails aren't quite full enoughAn estimated 265 Texas law enforcement agencies will participate Feb. 25 in "The Great Warrant Roundup. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 11:08 am
District Court Judge Lee Rosenthal declaring in October 2017 that the county’s bail practices were unconstitutional and ordering the release of all misdemeanor defendants from the county jail. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 5:43 am
Mary was arrested and taken to the county jail where she was chained to a stake in the ground. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 1:31 pm
This letter was delivered to the Tom Green County Jail in Texas. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am
Dallas pioneered this model and by all accounts it has worked extraordinarily well. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 4:41 am
Go here to bid or watch the auction online.I'm not sure I've ever heard of an actual auction for a jail or prison unit, but this is the inevitable, last-ditch outcome for counties that speculatively built extra jail capacity (or in this case a prison unit on spec), but couldn't lease out the beds once construction was complete. [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 8:42 am
Because what happens at the county jail stays in the county jail. [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]
9 Jul 2012, 12:26 am
That’s a concern to the district attorney that we’ll have people staying in jail while we’re waiting on results. [read post]
