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3 Jun 2011, 11:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Additionally, McLennan County StateJuvenile Correctional Facility Units I and II in Mart will be consolidated. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 11:52 pm
Hammad Akram, epidemiologist at the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, says the results can be devastating. [read post]
22 May 2011, 11:45 am by Mark S. Humphreys
Marsh & McLennan, Inc., a 1995, Texas Court of Appeals, Houston 1st District case. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 12:22 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Elected officials such as McLennan County Judge, Jim Lewis, and District 22 State Senator, Brian Birdwell also came to show their support. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 8:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Yesterday I'd written about the ugly finances underlying the all-but-empty Jack Harwell Detention Center in McLennan County, and it made me realize that right now there are quite a few jail and prison facilities out there - many owned by counties - that overbuilt banking on ever-growing inmate populations that haven't materialized and now appear unlikely.Here's the list of private or public-private jails or prisons I could come up with off the top of my head… [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 7:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Even so, strangely enough, "the number of new bookings each month in McLennan County has gone up, suggesting less crime may not be the cause of the local inmate decline. ... the McLennan County Jail averaged 3,493 bookings each month in 2007. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 8:49 am
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7 Mar 2011, 9:13 pm
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8 Feb 2011, 8:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In a story last year, the Waco Trib reported ("Water issues loom large for McLennan County area communities," April 18, 2010, behind paywall) that "McLennan County’s new groundwater district is trying to fight the overpumping and decline of the Trinity Aquifer. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 11:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Somebody should ask McLennan and Johnson Counties how that turned out! [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 7:49 am by Susan I. Nelson
"Fernando Villarreal, a McLennan County justice of the peace and Democratic activist, said local Hispanic voters will remember the Republicans’ resistance to the Dream Act. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But despite having contracts with at least two large counties to accept outside inmates, the center has not reached more than 50 percent capacity since its opening in June.According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the center reported Nov. 1 that only 39 percent of its beds were in use.Coryell County, which has been sending overflow inmates to McLennan, has instituted a Supervised Pretrial Services program to identify inmates who should be eligible for… [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 7:18 am by Steve Hall
The court upheld Billy Wayne Coble's death sentence in the killings of his wife's mother, father and brother, ruling that other evidence presented at sentencing supported the McLennan County jury's findings. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 9:44 pm by Susan I. Nelson
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 Sep 2010, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
While I was away, most Texas counties approved their annual budgets and one of the big criminal justice growth areas in recent years for many of them has been rising indigent defense costs - a function of increased state regulation and the fact that the number of new cases has continued to rise (inexplicably) despite crime declining across the state.In 2009, Texas counties spent a total of $186,307,540 on indigent defense, more than a 109% increase from 2001 when… [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 10:28 pm by Susan I. Nelson
I.C.E. data for McLennan County, Texas, since begining participation in the Secure Communities program (January 2010): Total fingerprint sets submitted: 3,955 Number of matches indicating the person may be in the country illegally: Level 1offenders: 17 Level 2 and 3 offenders: 109 Non-criminals: 29 Number of people deported after a match is made: Level 1 offenders: 1 Level 2 offenders: 2 Level 3 offenders: 0 Noncriminals: 15 Surrounding counties have signed… [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 3:30 pm by Susan I. Nelson
 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]
19 Jul 2010, 10:14 am
The car accident took place in McLennan County, Texas. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 6:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Smith County judges can and will easily fill up as many bed spaces as the commissioners court provides.The Texas Commission on Jail Standards publishes a monthly comparison of county-by-county incarceration rates, and Smith County is the largest of all counties that have incarceration rates in the local jail above 4 per 1,000 residents. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 5:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As a result, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ended its contracts with Texas counties, and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement has plenty of empty beds available through contractors they already work with. [read post]