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3 Apr 2012, 9:06 am by nflatow
  (You can hear more from Florence in an ACS podcast interview. ) In a 5-4 opinion, the Court held that two New Jersey county jails had not violated the Fourth Amendment by routinely strip searching all new detainees including those, like Albert Florence, who had been arrested for minor offenses and were unlikely to spend more than one night in jail. [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 7:46 pm
Because the girl's mother was in jail, county officers "had a duty to protect and care for Chelsie. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 2:17 pm
They also seek to have the lawsuit declared a class action to protect “all Muslim men incarcerated, now or in the future, at the Pierce County Jail. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 4:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Harris County District Attorney can't hire more prosecutors, the Houston PD can't find the informant behind a botched SWAT-style narcotics raid, and the chairman of the House Corrections Committee can't understand why local government spends so much money jailing people. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Jeralyn
The bad: He scaled back the early release of prisoners in county jails by cutting good time for misdemeanors from 50% to 33%. [read post]
2 May 2009, 4:29 am
Jamison Dean Gibbs was arrested in his dorm room at Liberty University yesterday morning by state police special agents on sex crimes charges out of Stafford County, according to a Free-Lance Star article. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 2:52 am
"Therefore the department is not at liberty to comment about the matter at this time. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 2:39 pm by Stephen Bilkis
Thus, it is of no moment that pre-trial detainees and convicted prisoners confined to the Nassau County Jail must use the same library and canteen (at different times), wear the same uniforms occupy cells similarly appointed, share the same TV time schedules, be treated by the same physicians, rise and retire at the same hours or attend the same educational classes (at their own option). [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 5:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
County commissioners are considering rescinding their contract with CEC - just as Liberty County is now contemplating after their jail population lowered substantially - because of a lack of available contracts to fill hundreds of unneeded jail beds built as part of an entrepreneurial partnership with the company.Today Texas jails overall are experiencing substantial vacancy rates in part because of a wave of speculative building by… [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 3:44 am by Eric E. Johnson
After being sued, the county’s board of supervisors voted to change the ordinance to downgrade the punishment to a maximum $100 fine and/or as long as 30 days in jail. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 7:26 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As of July 1, only 3.7 percent of county jail inmates were convicted misdemeanants, while 9.1 percent were misdemeanants awaiting trial. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 11:02 am by Matt Murphy
Courts Should Stop Jailing People for Being Poor Across the country, cash-strapped cities and counties are throwing poor defendants in jail for failing to pay legal debts that they can never hope to manage. [read post]
24 Dec 2011, 7:23 am by Alicia Gay, ACLU
Officials at the Teller County Jail in Colorado determined that prisoners could not have “certain religious articles or diets. [read post]
County Jails are the biggest jail system in the nation – and maybe on the planet. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 9:00 pm
By Fairfax County/Northern Virginia/Maryland/Beltway criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 12:00 am by Yona M
Being annoying won’t do much to advance your popularity or social life, but in one upstate county, New Yorkers might go to jail for being annoying — if a person they’re annoying is working for the police force or other public safety organization. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 12:59 pm by Whittel & Melton, LLC
A Polk County Sex Crimes Attorney at Whittel & Melton can fight on your behalf for less prison time, or possibly see to it that you get probation and avoid jail time entirely. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 7:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The ACLU of Texas filed a lawsuit in Hidalgo County related to how truancy cases are handled in Hidalgo County, according to Valleycentral.com:The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action lawsuit against all nine justices of the peace regarding the way they handle truancy cases.The lawsuit against the JPs, Sheriff Lupe Treviño and Hidalgo County was filed in McAllen federal court late Monday afternoon.The ACLU asserts that teens, who were… [read post]