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26 Nov 2008, 7:40 am
Particularly when McLennan County has other options besides jail building? [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 3:37 pm
Said one commissioner, "What people have to understand is that so goes that jail, so goes McLennan County. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 8:06 am
In McLennan County, reported the Waco Herald-Tribune ("County okays new DAs post, cuts health care funding," Aug. 15), subsidies to a speculative, extra jail built through a public-private partnership spurred county commissioners to slash indigent healthcare funding to finance their ill-conceived jail-building boondoggle. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 4:57 am
" McLennan County isn't the only one that got caught flat-footed when the marginal increase in incarceration rates began to fall with the economic slump, as the empty jail in Johnson County attests. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 9:55 am
Our friends Diana Claitor and Rebecca Larsen of the Texas Jail Project have a fine little column in the Waco Tribune Herald today titled "McLennan County jail increasingly mired in abuse. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 7:07 am
In Waco, McLennan County Commissioners are temporarily postponing jail construction because of high interest rates resulting from Wall Street's credit crunch, the Waco Tribune Herald reports ("Rough financial markets delaying construction of McLennan County jail," Nov. 19):McLennan County commissioners Tuesday postponed for the third straight week issuing project revenue bonds to finance the new jail… [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 8:06 am
In Waco, McLennan County's on-again, off-again private jail plan is back on after a contentious, 3-2 commissioners court vote yesterday, reports the Waco Tribune Herald ("McLennan County Commissioners approve hiring company to build additional jail," Aug. 14).Commissioner Joe Mashek argued McLennan County didn't need three jails, that they should simply take over the facility downtown presently… [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 8:57 am
The Waco Tribune Herald had an item last week ("DA Reyna comes under fire from attorneys on jail crowding," Feb. 6) on how tuff-on-crime plea bargaining policies by the McLennan County DA has filled up the jail, threatening to bust the county's budget. [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 10:28 pm
Waco Tribune Herald - Cindy Culp reports that Deportations triggered by a relatively new program that checks the immigration status of people booked into the McLennan County Jail have mostly involved people with no prior criminal history. [read post]
6 Jul 2013, 6:32 am
Here's how their story opened: McLennan County commissioners are examining a plan to accelerate the process of releasing nonviolent offenders awaiting trial in the county jail, thus cutting the costs of housing them. [read post]
12 Aug 2008, 7:49 am
By making the same mistake years ago that Judge Burkeen wants to pursue now - building an entrepreneurial jail.In Waco, McLennan County commissioners face a similar dilemma over whether to build more jail space when the county already owns a second jail being leased to a private contractor. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 9:40 am
Kip Averitt, R-Waco, McLennan County and Brazos County are the only counties in the state where state district judges have misdemeanor authority, Johnson said. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 11:00 am
It's not a lack of "coordination" causing McLennan's budget crisis but a perfect storm of bad public policy across county government.RELATED: When tuff on crime becomes tuff on taxpayers: McLennan County jail, DA edition. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 3:28 am
The changing of the guard at the McLennan DA's Office (Waco) in 2010 appears to have resulted in an overcrowded, over-budget county jail as the new District Attorney rejects more plea deals, forcing defendants to wait in jail longer, judging from a Waco Tribune Herald report this week ("McLennan County Sheriff out of money for prisoner overflow," March 21, behind paywall). [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:22 am
In Waco, a jail built on spec remains less-than-half full, and the local newspaper is fretting that trends toward greater use of diversion programs may reduce demand for McLennan County Jail beds. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 3:54 pm
Reported the Tribune-Herald ("McLennan County Sheriff Officers Association leader calls on Sheriff to oppose jail privatization," July 8):The president of the McLennan County Sheriff Officer's Association is calling for Sheriff Larry Lynch to put an end this morning to further consideration of privatizing county jail facilities. [read post]
28 May 2008, 12:14 pm
So what should McLennan County do to reduce jail overcrowding instead of building a new private jail? [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:25 pm
We need some help from Austin.I certainly understand why McLennan County doesn't want to pay to jail petty offenders. [read post]
31 May 2008, 4:39 pm
Grits recently posted on the problem facing McLennan County caused by jail overcrowding. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 7:56 am
" Of course, that crime decline was already well underway when McLennan County decided to build its extra jail. [read post]
