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21 Jul 2020, 11:23 am
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which is the state licensing agency for Texas police and jailers, is up for "Sunset" review during the next Texas legislative session in 2021. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 1:45 pm
Everyday, our nation’s leaders deny millions of Americans their humanity and justice, further securing the United States’ title as the biggest jailer in the world. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 1:25 pm
Just in Texas alone, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement reports that it regulates 2,740 agencies which collectively carry 80,130 peace-officer licenses and 22,944 jailers' licenses.Law enforcement has grown in Texas in recent decades along several axes: The number of officers employed en toto has increased. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 9:29 am
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:23 pm
At the time, I was Police Accountability Project Director at ACLU of Texas; check out a series of posters we commissioned about the Torres case Tarrant County Jail dinged for ignoring health concernsThe Tarrant County Jail briefly lost its state certification last month after a man died and inspectors discovered jailers had failed to check on him regularly per state protocols. [read post]
25 May 2020, 9:01 pm
”And, what is true for jailers and guards is also true for inmates and prisoners. [read post]
8 May 2020, 4:40 pm
The lawsuit stems from allegations that former LaRue County Detention Center deputy jailer Jerome Perry molested nearly a dozen women at the jail. [read post]
1 May 2020, 5:28 am
More than 5,000 TX jail inmates are in quarantine/isolation but are not being tested, and most county jails aren't reporting, including Travis County, which reported a jailer testing positive to the press but hasn't submitted anything to TCJS.How to reduce needless incarceration from probation revocationsProbation revocations are a major incarceration driver for prisons, both in Texas and nationally. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 4:01 pm
Dallas went from 64 inmates testing positive to 155.CORRECTION: The original headline mistakenly said the increase was 238% - I'd accidentally divided by the earlier number of diagnosed jailers instead of inmates. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 12:30 pm
Fifth Circuit (2017): No suing the jailers. [read post]
23 Apr 2020, 11:19 am
The plaintiff must show the jailers were deliberately indifferent to the threats. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 7:34 am
They argued that concerns about limiting incarceration due to the coronavirus falls directly under the court's authority to consider the "future safety of ... the community," which is explicitly a factor statutes contemplate when judges set bail.As Grits mentioned the other day, the Harris County jail is struggling more than any other lockup in the state with the coronavirus outbreak, which places not only inmates but jailers and the community at large at risk. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 4:14 pm
Travis County has no inmates who've tested positive, but the press reported one jailer who did, though the case wasn't listed in the TCJS report.Here are the other counties that have reported positive COVID cases to TCJS as of April 19:Tarrant County has seen seven inmates and one jailer test positive, with one other inmate and 11 jailers awaiting test results.Webb County has seen seven inmates and nine jailers test positive, with one inmate and one… [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 6:34 am
But since a jury can believe him, it permits the inference that he did need medical help after all, and that the jailers were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 7:52 am
Wayne County is a tough place for our jailers, inmates, and our courts. [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 6:44 am
This pro se inmate alleges that the jailers refused to change the battery in his pacemaker. [read post]
8 Apr 2020, 6:09 am
From the Miami Herald:Instead, she gave Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation until Thursday to explain, in writing, what measures are being taken to ensure the health of all inmates who suffer serious ailments including heart and lung disease, hypertension and compromised immune systems.Also, she ordered that jailers “provide adequate spacing of six feet or more” between inmates to the “maximum extent possible” at the jail housing more than 1,800 inmates. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 4:29 pm
Jailers are at as great a risk as the jailed. [read post]
3 Apr 2020, 8:27 am
Inmates who bring medical indifference claims against their jailers mostly lose their cases because the legal standards adopted by the courts impose evidentiary hurdles that usually doom their chances of victory. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 4:05 pm
As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I knot that the arrest challenge is increased all the more with the current pandemic, where police and jailers need to consider enforcing the law while being cognizant of the pandemic-related risks of getting close to any suspect and to placing them in jail. [read post]
