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12 Dec 2007, 1:02 am
One of the more interesting presentations I saw last week in New Orleans at the Drug Policy Alliance conference centered on implementing ground-level harm reduction strategies, a topic that interests me especially as Bexar County prepares to launch Texas' first legal needle exchange operation in San Antonio. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:05 am
Here's a chart excerpted from JPI data for Texas counties with the highest ratio of drug-related incarcerations per 100,000 by county.Reporters especially should review this useful map for localized fact sheets for Texas Counties with populations above 250,000. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 10:28 pm
You may get an apology for any inconvenience you were caused and hangs up the phoneImmigration Detention Boom Not OverHere's another example why I don't think we're finished yet with the immigration detention boom, even though capacity in current facilities is already maxxed out.New Dallas Repeat Offender Policy Due to OvercrowdingWith new checks and balances, the Dallas DA has reinstated a program to move repeat offenders more quickly out of the county jail and into… [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 11:55 pm
Go figure.Bexar jail strip search policy challenged Bexar County has been sued over the jail's policy of strip searching every single inmate booked into the facility. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 11:36 pm
Foster insisted he was 80 feet away in a car, had no idea Brown was going to kill LaHood and didn't participate in the shooting.A Bexar County jury convicted Foster and Brown of capital murder and sentenced both to death. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
But several DAs and local law enforcement officials have thwarted the law's implementation in much of the state.In San Antonio, Bexar DA Susan Reed blocked the law's implementation, even though it would have saved the county more than $10,000 per day. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 10:00 pm
Five Democratic members of the Texas House from Bexar County have sent letters to the Federal Communication Commission asking it to intercede in the argument. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 12:06 am
For the past decade, Harris County has prosecuted more juveniles as adults than Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis counties combined.I attended a workshop yesterday at the Lubbock conference of the Juvenile Justice Association of Texas where defense attorney Mel Hazelwood described the certification process in some detail. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 5:22 am
"Texas permits courts to certify juveniles as young as 15 to be tried as adults for murder and other violent crimes.For the past decade, Harris County has prosecuted more juveniles as adults than Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis counties combined.In 1996, Harris County certified 170 juveniles amid a public crackdown on violent youth crime. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 3:34 am
Tom Rickhoff's Blog is the blog of Judge Tom Rickhoff, who presides before Probate Court No. 2 in Bexar County, Texas (for those non-Texans in the audience, that's where San Antonio is located). [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 11:22 pm
" According to Haley Smith at The Baptist Standard ("Bexar County youthful offenders find second chance with KAPS," Oct. 26):A growing number of South Texas juvenile offenders are hearing good newsâ€â [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 2:43 am
Private prison contractors told the county it would be profitable to run at the overcrowded levels the county operated at under Texas Commission on Jail Standards variances, but not at its actual capacity of just over 500 inmates.Is coverup worse than the crime for bribery? [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 5:25 pm
The 408th District Court in Bexar County, Texas has issued a temporary injunction against a foreclosure rescue scheme - Foreclosure Assistance Solutions, LLC of Florida and its principal operators, Herb Zerden and Adolfo Quintero, owner John Woodruff, and J.W.W. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
(Thankfully, commissaries in adult Texas prisons are operated by TDCJ.)It's clear that Texas needs to perform a comprehensive investigation/audit of county jail commissary contracts statewide. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 9:41 am
Former Bexar County prosecutor Sam Millsap, a Democrat from Texas, and former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, a Republican, both expressed their outrage. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 7:58 am
Texas Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff Wentworth has requested that Attorney General Greg Abott determine whether participants in a legislatively authorized needle exchange pilot in Bexar County can be prosecuted as Bexar District Attorney Susan Reed has threatened to do. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:44 am
One Texas district attorney, Carlos Valdez of Nueces County, has announced that he will stop seeking the death penalty until the high court issues a decision, but many others, including Bexar County DA Susan Reed, told reporters they would enforce current law until otherwise directed. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 2:02 am
The administrator of the Bexar County jail, Chief Deputy Dennis McKnight resigned this week in the wake of internal changes under the new Sheriff, reports the Express News.In this writer's opinion, McKnight was probably the most innovative jail chief in the state, so this will be a major loss for Bexar County, which struggles daily with overincarceration problems. [read post]
26 Sep 2007, 12:04 pm
I wanted to recommend some terrific recent offerings from the Texas blogosphere on criminal justice topics:From Texas Prison Bidness:Sheriff's confidante pleads guilty in Bexar/Premier management scandalThe Hidden Cost of Private PrisonsJail alternatives can save counties moneyHow do you explain a problem like Hutto? [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 7:33 am
This is good news for the initiative to expand legal needle exchange programs in Texas: House Public Health Committee Chair Dianne Delisi has decided to not to seek re-election.Regular readers know that the Texas Legislature in 2007 authorized the first ever legal needle exchange program in the state - a pilot program in Bexar County. [read post]
