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9 Mar 2011, 7:56 am
" Of course, that crime decline was already well underway when McLennan County decided to build its extra jail. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 11:55 am
Somebody should ask McLennan and Johnson Counties how that turned out! [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 5:19 am
There's a takeaway lesson from this episode that one would think should resonate with fiscal conservatives: Smaller government costs less; jails are government; therefore smaller jails cost less.Indeed, one need only look at the jail fiascos in McLennan and Johnson Counties - where private companies convinced commissioners to build large facilities they didn't need that now sit empty with no contracts to pay the bond debt - to see the mess… [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 3:37 pm
Said one commissioner, "What people have to understand is that so goes that jail, so goes McLennan County. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 8:44 am
Speculative Lubbock jail opens with no prisoners to fill itWebb County Sheriff's speculative jail scheme ignores risksHow Cameron County's entrepreneurial jail scheme costs taxpayersDo Limestone and McLennan Counties need three jails apiece? [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:22 am
In Waco, a jail built on spec remains less-than-half full, and the local newspaper is fretting that trends toward greater use of diversion programs may reduce demand for McLennan County Jail beds. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 4:57 am
" McLennan County isn't the only one that got caught flat-footed when the marginal increase in incarceration rates began to fall with the economic slump, as the empty jail in Johnson County attests. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 9:44 pm
In less then two years, counties already involved in the program, like McLennan County, have seen about 12,000 level one criminals like murders or rapists deported and 29, 500 level two and three criminals deported. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 10:28 pm
Waco Tribune Herald - Cindy Culp reports that Deportations triggered by a relatively new program that checks the immigration status of people booked into the McLennan County Jail have mostly involved people with no prior criminal history. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 3:30 pm
Dallas County - The Dallas Morning News reports that Dallas County, like more than half of Texas' counties (including McLennan) is participating in the U.S. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 6:24 am
The Smith County Jail incarcerates 4.26 residents per 1,000. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 5:59 am
" In Waco/McLennan County, a similar financing structure has been referred to as a "doomsday deal" for the taxpayers.Naturally, Lubbock's jail faced years-long construction delays, came in far above budget and has already once had to go back to the county for extra money. [read post]
6 May 2010, 8:35 am
Standard & Poors Rating Services gave the McLennan County Public Facility Corp. a AA- rating for the jail project. [read post]
24 Apr 2010, 4:55 am
In Waco, reported the Herald-Tribune ("A new jail in McLennan County, but no inmates to fill it," April 23), "The new jail on State Highway 6 has an impressively low detention population: zero. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 9:54 am
”As of March 1, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, Johnson County had just 338 inmates in the jail, so the supposed profitmaker has now become a money suck. [read post]
29 Dec 2009, 1:37 pm
(It'd be nice to see those problems resolved at the ballot box, for once, instead of in the courts.)In McLennan County, long-time incumbent DA John Segrest will see his first contested race in a generation. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 7:00 am
“Diesel technicians are hard to find, and I’ve spent a lot of time on the Texas Workforce Commission Web site,” said Brooks, with Volvo & Mack Trucks of Waco, who lost an ex-convict to an employer in the Dallas area. ...Project RIO, short for Re-Integration of Offenders, is another service available locally at McLennan County Workforce Solutions, 1416 S. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 9:34 am
They're prosecuting cases brought to them at about the same rate as other counties overall, but in Waco prosecutors are much more likely to refuse the case up front instead of filing a bad case and dismissing it months down the line after the county has paid for jail costs, indigent defense, etc.. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 7:31 am
McLennan County seeks profit over public safety with privatization schemesGrayson County Judge pushing irresponsible jail building scheme [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 9:40 am
Kip Averitt, R-Waco, McLennan County and Brazos County are the only counties in the state where state district judges have misdemeanor authority, Johnson said. [read post]
