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25 Jan 2019, 3:50 am
Alyssa Lemkuil 713-755-6230 Lead Clerk: Aquanette Davis 713-755-6230 Assistant Clerk: Iris Garcia 713-755-6230 Court Coordinator: Norma A. [read post]
8 May 2009, 12:10 am
According to the Houston Chronicle ("Harris County cuts Sheriff's wish list," May 5) :The Harris County Commissioners Court on Tuesday tossed out almost all of Sheriff Adrian Garcia's requests for federal stimulus funding, instead allocating his office $6.2 million for electronic inmate medical records. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 11:54 am
Adrian Garcia, Harris County, Texas Sheriff, is developing a DWI initiative with the sole intention of dethroning Houston, Harris County, Texas from the top spot of alcohol related fatalities or at the very least curb as much as possible these type of fatalities. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 11:54 am
Adrian Garcia, Harris County, Texas Sheriff, is developing a DWI initiative with the sole intention of dethroning Houston, Harris County, Texas from the top spot of alcohol related fatalities or at the very least curb as much as possible these type of fatalities. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 7:34 am
The union backed Garcia, who won and became the county's first Hispanic sheriff.It's hard to take this seriously or consider it more than a spiteful jab at black and Latino officer groups and McCool's foes at the main deputies' union. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 6:57 am
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia says he's fired 249 people since taking office five years ago and expects the number to rise following an investigation of a mentally ill inmate left alone and untended. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:16 am
Yesterday the Harris County Commissioners Court bypassed the opportunity to put jail bonds on the ballot as Sheriff Adrian Garcia requested, instead criticizing Garcia for his unilateral decision to take prisoners contracted to a Lousiana jail and move them to Texas counties which charge more money.Commissioner Jerry Eversole said he'd have been indicted if he did the same thing, but I don't think so unless there was some financial or political quid pro quo. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 12:24 am
Harris County officials are coming to grips with the causes of jail overcrowding now that the tanking economy means building and staffing a new jail is not an immediate option.As has been discussed on Grits many times (see below), Harris County's main jail overcrowding problem stems from radical increases pretrial detention: "The number of people in [the Harris County] jail who are awaiting trial has grown by about 64 prisoners a month for the past two years and… [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 6:21 am
Reports the Houston Chronicle's Mike Morris this morning ("Thanks to less crowding, overflow inmates staying in Harris"):Dropping inmate numbers at the Harris County Jail will let the county end its nearly 5-year-old practice of shipping overflow inmates to Louisiana and other Texas counties within days, Sheriff Adrian Garcia said this week.The jail population has fallen 31 percent since 2008, to 8,573 inmates. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 11:21 am
Thanks to Alan Bernstein at the Harris County Sheriff's Office for arranging a tour of the Harris jail last week, which I visited to receive a first-hand pitch regarding why Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to expand facilities. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am
Ironically, though the article portrays this suggestion as an attack on Sheriff Adrian Garcia, the suggestion probably plays into his hands politically by setting the Sheriff up as a champion against privatization in they eyes of the deputies union, who otherwise aren't his biggest fans.RELATED (4/22): Harris County Jail scaling back visitation hours. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 1:42 am
Garcia has been asked to implement it and declined. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 8:23 am
Presenters include Lenni Benson, Amanda Frost, Lindsay Harris, Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, Laila Hlass,... [read post]
13 May 2008, 5:30 am
We've posted several times (here, here, and here) on the Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, but now comes the exciting word (from Ruben Garcia) that Harry Arthurs will be the keynote speaker. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 7:20 am
So some jurisdictions have found a way to reverse the one-way ratchet that continues to increase incarceration levels even when crime is declining.Hair Balls notes that "Alan Bernstein, a spokesman for Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, says the stats in the study are correct but draws attention to the period covered, which is almost entirely before Garcia's term began. [read post]
5 May 2008, 11:53 pm
Kuff has more.Related Grits posts:DOJ investigating Harris County JailMarc Levin: What should Harris County do now that jail bonds have failed? [read post]
10 Oct 2012, 8:24 am
Story goes, according to Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, that there were jail workers who were having sex with female inmates in the jail laundry rooms. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 2:25 am
New Harris County Democratic Sheriff Adrian Garcia is looking for ways to make good on his promise to boost the number of deputies on patrol while safely running an already understaffed jail during an economic downturn. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 6:23 am
It's a good thing Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia failed to get his wish for constructing more jail space since the commissioners court won't approve full staffing for the facilities he runs now. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 8:47 am
Reports AP:Snitching could lead to up to $5,000 for Harris County Jail inmates as investigators encourage detainees to phone in tips to Crime Stoppers.The Houston Chronicle reports Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia planned to announce the program Tuesday.Garcia says inmates have crucial information that could help deputies solve or prevent crimes. [read post]
