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1 Mar 2014, 4:09 pm
Here are a number of private prison related items that deserve Grits readers' attention:Texas Prison Bidness: Geo's Karnes County Correctional Center found out-of-compliance for overcrowding, understaffingTexas Prison Bidness: Johnson County to foot bill for expanded LaSalle Southwest Immigration detention center? [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 9:31 am
Similarly, Harris County closed a detention center and reduced detention costs 25 percent. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 1:13 pm
September 26, 2014 My experience with the women and children at Karnes County “Residential” Center On Friday, September 19, 2014, one of my small firm’s associate attorneys, the office manager, and I visited the Karnes County “Residential” Center in Karnes City, Texas for the first time. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 10:58 am
The county spent $58 million to renovate the former Criminal Courts Building at Fannin and Congress and turn it into the Juvenile Justice Center. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 5:19 am
"The rigidity of these rules contributes to high pre-trial detention rates in Harris County and exacerbates the County's budget woes. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 12:31 pm
It's unclear what degree of oversight Louisiana penal officials exercise over the West Carroll Detention Center. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 6:39 am
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas on January 12, 2012 released the following: “Abercia Indicted HOUSTON – Long-time Harris County Precinct One Constable Jack Abercia has been arrested along with his Chief Lieutenant Weldon Kenneth Wiener and Office Chief Michael Butler following the return of a 13-count federal indictment, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 6:14 am
”Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia told KHOU the center would “take the City of Houston out of the jail business, quit the duplication of operations, save the taxpayers money and get cops back out on the street faster. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 4:59 am
The Houston Chronicle published a notable column today titled "Let's keep our mentally ill youth out of detention," by former Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O'Neill, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, Harris County Juvenile Probation Department Executive Director Tom Brooks and Dr. [read post]
14 May 2008, 11:59 am
America has reached the point, sadly, where we treat prisons, jails and youth detention as substitutes for mental health treatment or else the only place where indigent people can access mental health care.For adults the issues can be more complex, but for kids they're pretty simple: Criminalizing mental health problems only makes sense from a bureaucratic perspective (to get the person access to treatment), not from any viable theory of justice anyone could possibly describe.Last week… [read post]
15 Aug 2010, 6:52 am
"Some of the company's gains were "offset by a decrease in revenues of $20.6 million due to the termination of our management contract at the Sanders Estes Unit in Venus, Texas, Newton County Correctional Center in Newton, Texas, Jefferson County Downtown Jail in Beaumont, Texas, Fort Worth Community Corrections Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Tri-County Justice & Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 7:17 am
According to the paper, "When the Neuropsychiatric Center at Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center is out of room, our law enforcement professionals must drive around in their squad cars with people suspected of mental illness, waiting for a bed to open up or looking for an alternative. [read post]
10 Oct 2012, 8:24 am
It is known that this all took place at the minimum security facility laundry room or the detention center laundry room at the Baker Street jails. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
The purpose of pretrial detention is not to assist prosecutors in extracting a guilty plea. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 10:52 am
But Abbott has now backed a bail-reform bill that eschews best practices and instead puts his office at the center of future decisions about pretrial reform.The Houston Chronicle editorial board rightly opined that the move puts legislative reform efforts at extreme risk, but it's hardly just the governor. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 11:15 am
So in 2012 Mayor Annise Parker asked me to join the newly formed Board of Directors for what would be called The Houston Forensics Science Center, and basically The Houston Forensics Science Center is the former HPD Crime Lab, but it is now independent of HPD, as of last year. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 6:44 am
There's a robust mentoring program in Houston but Harris County courts are still essentially plea mills. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 6:16 am
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]
5 May 2008, 11:53 pm
Harris County already incarcerates 600 inmates at a private detention center in northeast Louisiana at a cost of $9 million a year. [read post]
2 May 2010, 8:51 am
If inmates are counted toward a county's population, some areas might receive a disproportionate number of legislative seats, said D'Vera Cohn, senior writer of the Pew Research Center. [read post]
