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9 Jul 2019, 1:24 pm by John Floyd
  Marijuana Prosecutions Halt in Dallas, Harris and Tarrant Counties   The Houston Chronicle reported on July 1, 2019 that Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg recently announced that her office plans to dismiss more than two dozen misdemeanor marijuana cases and will not be filing any more such cases. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 6:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
All the law did was set people up to have an arrest warrant later, at which point county taxpayers would host them in the jail for a while. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 12:54 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
When the surcharge program first rolled out, county jails were flooded and the Legislature in 2007 reduced first-offense DWLI penalties from a Class B to a Class C misdemeanor. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 2:05 pm by [email protected]
The “Sold Out” campaign highlighted the case of Lena, a 17-year-old girl who ran away from an abusive mother and ended up as one of the youngest inmates of Harris County Jail in Houston. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 2:05 pm by [email protected]
The “Sold Out” campaign highlighted the case of Lena, a 17-year-old girl who ran away from an abusive mother and ended up as one of the youngest inmates of Harris County Jail in Houston. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 7:56 am by John Floyd
At a hearing last month, the criminal justice advocacy group Texas Fair Defense Project claimed the bill at that time didn’t adequately address federal court rulings that called for individual bail hearings within two days of arrest and said Harris and Dallas counties’ bail practices kept people in jail simply because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
(Of the large cities, only Dallas and El Paso aren't under the civil service system. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 4:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This legislation sailed out of committee and appeared to be doing fine until Dallas DA John Creuzot announced his own decarceration initiatives mid-session. [read post]
31 May 2019, 6:24 am by Michael Lowe
Here is the new prosecutorial policy for Dallas County, effective January 1, 2019: Early Dismissal if Signed Waiver. [read post]
14 May 2019, 8:25 am by [email protected]
The group claimed Dallas and Harris counties’ bail practices kept people locked up because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
14 May 2019, 8:25 am by [email protected]
The group claimed Dallas and Harris counties’ bail practices kept people locked up because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
10 May 2019, 9:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It will drive up pretrial detention rates, drastically increase jail costs for counties, and force judges to rely on monetary bond over any other alternatives. [read post]
8 May 2019, 10:11 am by [email protected]
An attorney for the Bland family who settled lawsuits against the state and county jail for almost $2 million said he never saw the clip before it was shared by a reporter. [read post]
8 May 2019, 10:11 am by [email protected]
An attorney for the Bland family who settled lawsuits against the state and county jail for almost $2 million said he never saw the clip before it was shared by a reporter. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:03 am by Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
Written by Maurine Dallas Watkins in 1926, it featured two murder cases of women who were held on murderess row at the Cook County Jail in 1924. [read post]