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24 Feb 2009, 11:25 pm
We need some help from Austin.I certainly understand why McLennan County doesn't want to pay to jail petty offenders. [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 12:30 pm
The Court also seems to have granted the State's petition for discretionary review in this McLennan County aggravated sexual assault case. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 7:40 am
Particularly when McLennan County has other options besides jail building? [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 7:07 am
In Waco, McLennan County Commissioners are temporarily postponing jail construction because of high interest rates resulting from Wall Street's credit crunch, the Waco Tribune Herald reports ("Rough financial markets delaying construction of McLennan County jail," Nov. 19):McLennan County commissioners Tuesday postponed for the third straight week issuing project revenue bonds to finance the new jail… [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 10:05 am
By contrast, for example, McLennan County (Waco) has a larger jail than Smith and a bigger population but houses only 49 pretrial misdemeants and 57 state jail felons, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.The line "More people means more incarceration" may sound reasonable, but it doesn't explain Smith County's jail population figures and neither does rising crime. [read post]
24 Sep 2008, 12:51 pm
The Austin-based Texas Civil Rights Project has filed suit against the McLennan County jail to stop its practice of strip searching inmates. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 4:53 pm
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News Crime Blog reports that the new Dallas County budget includes provisions to close one of the county's five jails to save money on staffing costs.This should be a cautionary tale for communities like Smith County (Tyler) to the East of Dallas or McLennan (Waco) to the South which hope to solve overcrowding problems by expanding capacity. [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 3:05 am
A hearing was held this week was held in Waco, Texas to determine whether the trial of a local civic leader should be moved out of McLennan County. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 6:56 am
Yesterday I mentioned that McLennan County is lurching toward building a private local jail in Waco in the face of strident opposition, and now I find news of a group in Nacogdoches gearing up to oppose a private prison there that's also backed by local leadership. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 8:06 am
In Waco, McLennan County's on-again, off-again private jail plan is back on after a contentious, 3-2 commissioners court vote yesterday, reports the Waco Tribune Herald ("McLennan County Commissioners approve hiring company to build additional jail," Aug. 14).Commissioner Joe Mashek argued McLennan County didn't need three jails, that they should simply take over the facility downtown presently… [read post]
12 Aug 2008, 7:49 am
By making the same mistake years ago that Judge Burkeen wants to pursue now - building an entrepreneurial jail.In Waco, McLennan County commissioners face a similar dilemma over whether to build more jail space when the county already owns a second jail being leased to a private contractor. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 6:11 pm
Questions Remain About Conditions for Texas Detainees Evacuated After Hurricane DollyNo New Private Jail in McLennan County: Will County Take Back CEC/Civigenics JailWaco Tribune Editorializes Against New JailRelatedly, a couple of readers emailed to ask what happened to the links to other blogs in Grits sidebar. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 4:05 pm
I have posted before about the jail situation in McLennan County, and the discussion about whether to turn it over to a private entity. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 8:10 am
Just to update a topic Grits has been tracking recently, the McLennan County Commissioners voted against privatizing their local jail.UPDATE: The Texas Commission on Jail Standards meets in Austin tomorrow (Thursday, Aug. 7 - here's the agenda) and will hear an update on McLennan's appeal of a TCJS remedial order that's driving commissioners' push for expanding jail capacity.See prior, related Grits posts:Commissioner wants off… [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 8:20 am
After previously vowing with his colleagues to consider only privatization-centered options as solutions to McLennan County's jail overcrowding problem, Commissioner Joe Mashek reversed course this week and called for ending the use of privatized jails, reported the Waco Herald Tribune ("Idea of county-run facilities debated as solution to overcrowding," July 30):Mashek's proposal would see the county again running the… [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 8:23 am
This week, Kutscherousky remains in the McLennan County Jail awaiting transfer to prison to begin serving her two-year sentence. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 10:55 pm
There was a recent trial in McLennan County involving the tragic death of a young girl in a car accident. [read post]
13 Jul 2008, 7:38 am
That's because the McLennan County Commissioners Court proposes significantly overbuilding the jail so a private contractor can make extra money renting out space to others. [read post]
9 Jul 2008, 2:42 am
I posted earlier about the jail overcrowding McLennan County is having to deal with. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 3:54 pm
Reported the Tribune-Herald ("McLennan County Sheriff Officers Association leader calls on Sheriff to oppose jail privatization," July 8):The president of the McLennan County Sheriff Officer's Association is calling for Sheriff Larry Lynch to put an end this morning to further consideration of privatizing county jail facilities. [read post]
