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21 Oct 2009, 10:59 am
Students Take Their Concerns to the Dallas County DA The UT-Austin and UT-Arlington students took their concerns about Scott and Simmons to the Dallas County District Attorney. [read post]
31 Jan 2021, 5:47 am
Kudos to Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee for rethinking the approach.34 Years Later, A Chance for Justice: In Dallas, DA John Creuzot agreed with most of Ben Spencer's habeas claims, the Dallas News reported, boosting his chances for relief. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 5:01 am
County Judge Brian Lee noted it is used most often when the subject may already in jail, prison, or dead. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Other Texas cities, including Dallas, have altered policies in the past year to give officers more flexibility in deciding which suspects get tickets and which go to jail. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 2:47 pm
This is the current requirement for local and county jails. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 2:47 pm
This is the current requirement for local and county jails. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 12:35 pm
Geo's 10-K reports that the company "generally require[s] at least 160 hours of pre-service training before an employee is allowed to work in a position that will bring the employee in contact with inmates in our domestic facilities" That's better than at the Dallas County Jail, but a far cry from the 300 hours required for TDCJ guards.Even more troubling in the short term, the company has a "significant level of indebtedness that could adversely… [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 10:22 am
Geo's 10-K reports that the company "generally require[s] at least 160 hours of pre-service training before an employee is allowed to work in a position that will bring the employee in contact with inmates in our domestic facilities" That's better than at the Dallas County Jail, but a far cry from the 300 hours required for TDCJ guards.Even more troubling in the short term, the company has a "significant level of indebtedness that could… [read post]
13 Jul 2010, 7:37 am
Writes Reynolds:It may be significant to note that the two large jurisdictions that utilize state jails to a greater extent than their population or prison admissions would suggest ... are Harris County and Travis County. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 9:49 am
Here are a few odds and ends that merit Grits' readers attention:Galveston sued over bail scheduleACLU has sued Galveston County over its bail schedule, adding that county to Harris and Dallas as bail litigation sites. [read post]
11 May 2018, 1:01 pm
Authoring Justice Blacklock allows that the record of the shooter (who was later convicted and is now in jail) may not have made him the ideal candidate to be a peace officer, considering that he had been fired from 12 of 21 prior jobs, that he was dismissed from the police academy for bad behavior, and that he required mood stabilizing medications. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 8:59 am
Man Robs Bank for $1 to Get Medical Care in Jail: Rad Berky of WCNC (NC) reports James Verone of Gaston County, North Carolina handed a note to a bank teller stating that he was robbing the bank for $1, and then sat and waited for the police to arrive. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 6:15 pm
Dallas County Sheriff No Longer Holds Non-Citizen Inmates for 48 Hours This past September, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez said her office would no longer honor every ICE requests to hold non-citizens for 48 hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, past their release dates. [read post]
1 May 2012, 8:29 am
Throughout most of her time there, Travis County was considered the most progressive DA's office in the state, though today that mantle has been usurped further up I-35 in Dallas. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 12:30 pm
At any given time, 30 to 35 percent of jail inmates in the San Luis Obispo County Jail are AB 109 inmates. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm
(Of the large cities, only Dallas and El Paso aren't under the civil service system. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 5:03 am
" If his Republican opponent were running a stronger campaign, Watkins might be in trouble in the general election from all these self-inflicted wounds.The Waiting is the Hardest PartA shortage of state hospital beds is creating a backlog of mentally ill offenders in county jails awaiting competency restoration, as demonstrated in this compelling case study from Tanya Eiserer at the Dallas News. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 12:18 am
The Charlotte Observer reported that the 17-year-old was killed in the Gaston County crash. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 1:45 pm
Since November, more than 400 criminals have been released from Los Angeles County after their felony crimes were reduced to misdemeanors. [read post]
27 May 2012, 8:01 am
(Harris, the state's largest county, had 9 inmates who'd waited longer than 60 days for a bed, according to the Dallas News, compared to 66 in Dallas who'd waited longer than 70 days.)Defendants deemed incompetent can't just plead guilty and serve out their sentence. [read post]
