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1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
The four sites are:Austin Travis County MHMR (Travis)Center for Health Care Services, San Antonio (Bexar)North'Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Dallas (Dallas)Tarrant County MHMR, Fort Worth (Tarrant) These outpatient programs are not in secure settings and are suitable when the court believes the defendant won't be a danger. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 8:40 am
TDCJ had 773 SAFP placements from Dallas in 2009, just 391 from much-larger Harris County, and 217, 164, and 145, respectively, from Tarrant, Bexar and Travis counties. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 9:02 am
Otherwise, the Texas Commission on Jail Standards lacks the staff and perhaps the expertise and authority. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 3:29 pm
That would be a seismic shift on the state's highest criminal court.Going gets weird in Bexar DA raceThe two big DA races to watch in the Texas primaries are both on the Democratic side, in Bexar and Dallas counties. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 5:40 am
In the past five years, the jail diversion program has saved Bexar County more than $50 million. [read post]
7 Oct 2021, 5:24 am
Sources: https://www.kens5.com/article/news/crime/crackdown-on-criminals-task-force-apprehends-close-to-70-fugitives-in-bexar-county/273-5c648eb7-edd3-4d4a-aba0-e09e8585707f https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.38.htm#38.10Read More [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 10:42 am
Inmates Die Mysteriously in Texas Jails and Prisons This week, guards discovered a man dead in his cell at the Bexar County Detention Center (the jail for San Antonio) and it’s still not clear why or how he died. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 2:43 am
Hunting and overcriminalizationMike Leggett at the Austin Statesman sounds surprised to learn that increasing the penalty to a state jail felony didn't eliminate deer poaching in Texas. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 10:00 am
Travis jail eliminates in-person visitation, profits from video contractThe Travis County Jail has switched exclusively to video visitation, eliminating face-to-face visits with inmates by friends and family, reported the Austin Statesman. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 8:39 am
Eight inmates, fourteen deputies, a nurse, and a maintenance employee at the Bexar County Jail have tested positive for the COVID virus. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 11:57 pm
On Thursday at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's briefing, I heard Bexar County DA Susan Reed describe offenders who receive probation sentences instead of jail as getting a "free ride," which always strikes me as an odd thing to say, though you hear it a lot (an audio of her remarks has been posted online). [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 6:40 am
Skinner has a good excuse.See prior, related Grits posts:Growth in forensic commitments exacerbates shortage of state mental hospital beds Judge orders state hospital to take more competency restoration patients Competency restoration process sounds crazy to columnist Few bills proposed at Lege to remedy statewide crisis in competency restorationHarris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetJail deaths implicate… [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 6:45 am
The SA Express News localizes the the story of Bexar County jail inmates who've been declared mentally incompetent but who wait for months in jail to receive "competency restoration. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 8:01 am
On June 18, the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense awarded a state-funded four-year grant totaling $419,360 to Lubbock County to set up the program. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 9:47 am
I think we're going to get slaughtered," said Leon Evans, chief executive of Bexar County Mental Health Care services. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 7:23 am
Here are a few items that caught Grits' attention this week but haven't made it into independent posts:Covering Texas DA's racesSee coverage of DA's races in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, and Bexar Counties.' [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 11:22 am
For more background on why this is needed, check out an excellent, extended article on flawed forensics published in Congressional Quarterly last year.Eliminating Class C arrests could resolve Bexar jail beefThe biggest beef between the San Antonio PD and Bexar County over whether the PD will use the county's new jail intake facility is maintaining a space for processing Class C misdemeanor arrests. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 5:27 am
Most recently in Bexar County, a private prison firm allegedly bribed a top political aide to county Sheriff Ralph Lopez. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 8:48 am
Bexar County has a special mental health court for dealing with mentally ill defendants. [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:57 am
For those interested, here's a sampling of Grits' writing on competency restoration topics over the last decade: Lege focused on least-bad band aids on mental health, competency and jails Band-aid bills no substitute for competency restoration funding Incompetent Waco defendants in legal limbo Incompetent defendants may wait decades pretrial with no rights, optionsState sending some defendants big bills for competency restoration costs Man deemed incompetent held 20 years… [read post]
