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12 Feb 2013, 8:57 am
The Waco Tribune Herald had an item last week ("DA Reyna comes under fire from attorneys on jail crowding," Feb. 6) on how tuff-on-crime plea bargaining policies by the McLennan County DA has filled up the jail, threatening to bust the county's budget. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 9:28 am
The Harris County Jail ain't for nothing the largest mental health institution in the state. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 9:26 am
Regular readers may recall that high jail costs from "tuff on crime" policies by the new McLennan County DA have become a political issue as the county has been forced to raise taxes to pay for rising jail costs.Four mid-sized counties - Hidalgo, Ector, Webb and Parker, five if you include McLennan - were the largest jails at more than 90% capacity with only homegrown prisoners. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 5:02 am
Reported the Trib:The changes come a week after McLennan County commissioners discussed budget woes fueled in recent years by a growing jail population that hovered this past week around 1,300 inmates.Based on current trends, the county may spend $5 million this year to house overflow inmates from the McLennan County Jail, which is $2 million more than budgeted. [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 10:37 am
No word if that includes steroid testing, which Grits believes is a much more widespread and immediate problem in law enforcement than use of marijuana, cocaine, etc..Commissioner: Roll back jail costs to reduce taxpayer burdenMcLennan County's newest commissioner, investor Will Jones, told the Waco Tribune Herald that "his top priority is controlling the cost of housing overflow inmates from the McLennan County Jail at the privately run Jack Harwell… [read post]
20 Nov 2012, 6:53 am
Doomsday deal on Waco jail coming home to roostIn Waco, McLennan County commissioners cite cost overruns at the jail "as a major cause of the 2-cent property tax increase in this year’s budget. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 8:06 am
In McLennan County, reported the Waco Herald-Tribune ("County okays new DAs post, cuts health care funding," Aug. 15), subsidies to a speculative, extra jail built through a public-private partnership spurred county commissioners to slash indigent healthcare funding to finance their ill-conceived jail-building boondoggle. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 6:47 am
And that does not include the cost for the brief stints they spent in the McLennan County Jail.One of the men is retarded with an IQ of 55 who broke into a doughnut shop ... wait for it ... because he wanted a doughnut. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 5:40 am
Empty, speculative jails in TexasPrivatizing Harris County Jail would save money by cutting guard pay, benefits Jailing for profit spurs inmate releases in two Texas countiesWhen fewer inmates is a big problem: Perverse incentives at the McLennan County Jail Jones County pays for empty jail as detention bubble bursts [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 5:19 am
Statewide, according to the Commission on Jail Standards, about a third of county jail beds were empty as of March 1. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 3:28 am
The changing of the guard at the McLennan DA's Office (Waco) in 2010 appears to have resulted in an overcrowded, over-budget county jail as the new District Attorney rejects more plea deals, forcing defendants to wait in jail longer, judging from a Waco Tribune Herald report this week ("McLennan County Sheriff out of money for prisoner overflow," March 21, behind paywall). [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 5:07 am
An exchange between judge and defendant during a guilty plea out of Williamson County in a remarkable, 33-year old murder case caught Grits' attention.Benny Tijerina was sentenced to concurrent 40 year sentences in Williamson and McLennan counties for the crimes, though he claims and a victim's mother agrees that another man was the shooter (the prosecutor claimed to have jailhouse informants who say otherwise). [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 11:54 am
The wag who notified me of this via email added that this is "another way to keep the McLennan County Jail full. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 6:16 am
What caused me to write about this is a post in Grits for Breakfast about the policy of the McLennan County District Attorney - Abel Reyna - to impose an increased fine on all defendants convicted of DWI. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 12:29 pm
”Will defendants in McLennan County pay through the nose, or will this result in clogged dockets, demands for trials, or even pleas to jail sentences? [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 7:31 am
The court agreed to extend the CEC's operation of the downtown jail just days after the county had learned about abuse claims from the McLennan County Jack Harwell Jail (another facility ran by the CEC). [read post]
4 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
As has, hopefully, the "jail as profit center" myth among Texas county commissioners.See related Grits posts:Private prison bubble bursting: Empty, speculative jails in Texas Privatizing Harris County Jail would save money by cutting guard pay, benefits Jailing for profit spurs inmate releases in two Texas counties When fewer inmates is a big problem: Perverse incentives at the McLennan County… [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 4:41 am
As Grits has reported in the past, a similar fiscal drama is playing out with the "Doomsday Deal" in McLennan County and a long list of empty, speculative jails in Texas, so unless there's a new source of prisoners out there - private prison firms are banking on immigration detention - this may not be the last Texas jail or prison unit we see auctioned off like some defaulted property on the steps of the county courthouse.RELATED: From the… [read post]
20 May 2011, 5:32 am
And in both cases, defense attorneys complained about the state’s use of jail inmates’ testimony, which they contended was inherently unreliable. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:14 am
Yesterday I'd written about the ugly finances underlying the all-but-empty Jack Harwell Detention Center in McLennan County, and it made me realize that right now there are quite a few jail and prison facilities out there - many owned by counties - that overbuilt banking on ever-growing inmate populations that haven't materialized and now appear unlikely.Here's the list of private or public-private jails or prisons I could come up with off… [read post]
