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5 Oct 2015, 5:51 am
The Houston Chronicle's James Pinkerton and Anita Hassan have published an important investigative feature on the Harris County Jail ("Jailhouse Jeopardy: Guards often brutalize, neglect inmates in the Harris County Jail, records show," Oct. 3). [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am
Florida recently announced they will close seven prisons and four work camps under a gubernatorial plan from Republican Rick Scott that's being tarred by Democrats and prison-guard unions as soft on crime and evidence of an "extreme Tea Party agenda. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 12:41 pm
Harris County Jail Inmates Being Sexually Assaulted by Guards Isn’t News to Texas The new DOJ report isn’t shocking revelation to criminal justice professionals. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 11:19 pm
Via Kuff, I was pleased to learn from the Houston Chronicle ("Inmate labor plan on the table," Dec. 8) that: Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee has proposed that the county consider putting more prisoners to work cleaning local bayous and parks. [read post]
5 May 2008, 11:53 pm
Most guards are working double shifts more than once a week, Martin said, raising concerns about their health and safety. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 11:50 am
Plus any savings would come from cutting guard pay and benefits, and that won't happen without some sort of political rebellion/retaliation from the folks who currently staff the facility. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 8:41 am
One of the inmates who died in Harris County Jail was beaten to death by a fellow prisoner in March 2022. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 9:37 am
Council member Harry Thomas Jr. faces 37 to 46 months in federal prison when he is sentenced in May on felony theft and tax charges, a federal trial judge in Washington said today. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 4:57 am
This was a key reason Grits opposed Harris County's jail expansion plan a few years back: What good does it do to add extra cell capacity if there aren't enough guards to staff the facility now? [read post]
20 Jul 2014, 9:03 pm
Harris is serving his prison sentence at Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro. [read post]
26 May 2008, 11:10 pm
Harris County already must send hundreds of inmates to a private prison in Louisiana, yet their Sheriff is plowing forward to expand detention of immigrant in the jail.Further, will high per-inmate rates for immigration prisoners indirectly raise costs for locals by putting pressure on guard pay or causing guards to leave public employ to work for rapidly expanding private facilities? [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 12:55 pm
The Harris County Jail is also understaffed, and the Dallas jail can't find enough guards either. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 4:22 am
Where would guards come from to staff new prisons? [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:53 am
Presently, Harris County doesn't have enough guards to staff the jail cells it operates, and any additional capacity would either require new hires or paying staff costs entirely out of overtime. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 11:15 am
"Judge OKs death penalty trial in prison guard slaying," is the title of Andrea F. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 3:57 pm
For more background, check out this interview with Moore and two police-union negotiators in the aftermath of the contract agreement, reflecting on the year-and-a-half long fight.Grand jury declines indictments for guards accused of falsifying disciplinary casesHard to get District Attorneys in small counties with sizable prison-guard populations to get real enthusiastic about prosecuting corruption, so one shouldn't be completely surprised that a grand jury declined… [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 7:57 am
And it stayed that way, per the direction of Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 9:50 am
District Court Judge Clarence Brimmer in Wyoming has overturned a state death sentence and ordered a new trial for inmate James Harlow who was convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1997. [read post]
13 May 2013, 1:00 am
Mother Jones is doing a series on America's Worst Prisons:"Doing time is not supposed to include being raped by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards for the slightest provocation, driven mad by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect. [read post]
29 May 2014, 1:33 am
The gravest threat today to public-employee unions—which represent cops, firefighters, prison guards, teachers, nurses, and other city and state workers—is a Supreme Court case named Harris v. [read post]
