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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]
16 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
Dallas County has had 19 DNA-based exonerations -
more than any jurisdiction in the nation - since 2001,
when a state law began allowing post-conviction DNA
testing. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am
Dallas pioneered this model and by all accounts it has worked extraordinarily well. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 1:31 pm
This letter was delivered to the Tom Green County Jail in Texas. [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]
30 Mar 2020, 7:41 am
Anyone who violates the Austin Order will face penalties, including a fine of up to $1,000 or up to 180 days in jail Dallas’ Stay Home Stay Safe Order On March 24, 2020, Mayor Eric Johnson issued emergency regulations that apply a previously-issued Dallas County Stay Home Stay Safe Order to five counties that comprise the City of Dallas: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall Counties. [read post]
17 May 2011, 6:23 am
We could plan one, for say, each wrongfully convicted year a man spent in jail here in the DFW area. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:58 pm
RELATED: A reader points out this story from the Titus County Jail about improper relations between a deputy and inmate and retaliation against a whistleblower who reported her.The Houston Chronicle praised Harris County DA Pat Lykos for launching an investigation into the suicide of a 13-year old who allegedly endured severe bullying. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 1:48 pm
The survey seems incomplete, though, since the prosecutors self-reported just 18 total DNA exonerations since 2001 (Question 7), and we know there have been more than that in Dallas County alone. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 2:01 pm
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]
27 Jul 2008, 9:20 am
Of those incarcerated in prison (as opposed to state jails or SAFP programs), a whopping 66% are currently eligible for parole.The six largest counties account for just more than 50% of TDCJ residents:Harris 19.5%Dallas 12.5%Tarrant 7.3%Bexar 6.4%Travis 3.4%El Paso 1.6%An interesting capital punishment note ... [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 1:15 pm
Lynda Gonzalez Ideare BaileyDallas, TexasI started getting sick about a week after arriving at Dallas County Jail. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 7:18 am
Indeed, if Texas had already raised the age for purposes of prosecutions, it's likely the gun-storage rules would have been updated in the process.We've also discussed county jails having to pay to meet federal PREA standards because they must enforce "sight and sound" barriers between 17 year olds and adult populations. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 10:11 am
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]
3 Jan 2017, 5:49 am
And in the main, that's the Kafkaesque situation in which the overwhelming majority of these 155 defendants seemingly find themselves.Bail reform poster-childThis Dallas News story offers up a poster-child case for bail reform: "Why Dallas County can set $150,000 bail for a $105 shoplifting charge, and how taxpayers lose. [read post]
31 May 2013, 7:16 am
Whitmire wanted: the Dawson State Jail and a unit in Mineral Wells, both run by Corrections Corporation of America. [read post]
