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13 Apr 2015, 1:57 pm by News Desk
In the event the two DeCosters are taken into custody, they would likely serve time at a minimum federal facility or a county jail. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 1:47 pm by James
He was charged with leaving the scene and placed in the Anderson County Jail. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 6:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Read NPR's John Burnett on Willacy County's budget shortfall in the wake of a private prison riot that forced the closing of a county-owned immigration detention center. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 11:19 am by Michael Lowe
Dallas County Audit There was also an audit by the Dallas County Auditor last fall that resulted in the conclusion that there lots of expenditures out of the Dallas County Forfeiture Fund which were “unclear” if they were done for law enforcement reasons. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 2:02 pm by ALDF
Gracie palled around with her friend Iris, and later moved in with two small males, Puck and Dallas. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 7:42 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Ditto for county jail and indigent defense costs, which are big cost drivers for county property taxes.So, what policy choices would facilitate lower spending on criminal justice without harming public safety? [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 2:35 pm by James
Credit: Gregg County Jail Longview, TX — A 7-week-old baby was seriously injured by what police believe was a drunk driver. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 8:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
WFAA has a story on four women who are the first of their gender elected District Attorney in Dallas, Tarrant, Rockwall and Kaufman Counties, to which you could add Harris County (where both parties nominated women). [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 11:01 am by Michael Lowe
 The documents were sealed, although we know Epstein agreed to plead guilty and serve 18 months in a county jail, and that there has been a recent fight to unseal the file. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 5:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Dallas Morning News today published a column authored by your correspondent arguing that the Texas Lege could reduce the tax burden for local county jails by reducing penalties for two nonviolent offenses: low-level pot possession and subsequent offenses of driving with an invalid license. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 1:45 pm by CJLF Staff
  Since November, more than 400 criminals have been released from Los Angeles County after their felony crimes were  reduced to misdemeanors. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 1:30 am by Paul Caron
John Attanasio, 60, was booked into the Collin County jail Sunday. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 6:28 pm
(Image: Penn State University Archives)To mark this day, I thought I would draw on the connection between Penn State University and the Rev. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But you'd need data broken out in more detail to figure out pay scales under the suggested guidelines.There's lots of detail in this 114-page report (pdf) and Grits may come back to it later, but I wanted to at least get the link out there for folks who're interested.MORE: From the Texas Fair Defense Project, which noted that "According to data collected by TIDC for 2014, appointed attorneys or public defenders in all five of Texas’s most populous counties… [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 8:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Many of the episodes at PDs are shootings or other killings in the field while taking suspects into custody; Sheriffs' numbers are more likely to represent deaths in the county jail. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 12:12 pm by Michael Lowe
 A few years back, Dallas County was scandalized by a big, national news story about how innocent folk were being jailed on fake drug charges by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. [read post]