Showing posts with label personal bonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal bonds. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Constructing the plea mill

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Documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle cast new light on the ways Harris County judges systematically refused to grant personal bonds t...
Friday, February 16, 2018

It's a swing and a miss

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And it's strike two against Harris County in their efforts to maintain an unconstitutional and discriminatory bail policy in place. L...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Is Harris County deliberately undermining a federal court order?

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This past June an order from US District Judge Lee Rosenthal went into effect that drastically altered the way pretrial bonds are handled in...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Taking away freedom on the cheap

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One of our worst nightmares is being wrongly arrested by the police and getting lost in the criminal (in)justice system. Thanks to a cheap d...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Standing up to coercive bonding guidelines

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The first post I wrote for this blog - way back in August 2008 - was a short piece on the need for PR (personal recognizance) bonds in Harr...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Harris County squeeze play

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Last year, just 5.2 percent of slightly more than 94,000 people arrested by Harris County police agencies got out of jail on no-cost perso...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Staggering dockets won't relieve jail overcrowding

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Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has taken it upon himself to try to resolve the county's long-term problem of jail overcrowding. It...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Galveston looks to eliminate pretrial services

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Galveston County is in a mood to cut their operating budget and one of the biggest targets is the Pretrial Release Agency. The PRA serves tw...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Stuffed to the gills

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Forget about all that 6th Amendment nonsense about the right to counsel, Harris County has decided that's not nearly so important as cra...
Monday, May 2, 2011

One lump or two?

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Oh, the hypocrisy of those limited government folks never ceases to amaze. As Grits for Breakfast  reports, Teabaggers in Smith County (that...
Friday, April 29, 2011

On measuring cups, crack and jail overcrowding

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The boys over at Freakonomics have posited an interesting question -- did the sale of Pyrex hurt the crack cocaine industry ? It sounds qu...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Harris County Sheriff looks to ankle monitors to reduce overcrowding

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Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia is looking into allowing low-risk inmate at the county jail to serve their time at home with ankle monit...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Happy marijuana freedom day!

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If you didn't already know it, today is Marijuana Freedom Day (4/20, get it?). The folks over at NORML are planning events around the c...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Who is indigent in Harris County?

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It is a rarity in Harris County for any defendant who is out on bond to receive appointed counsel. There is even one judge in the Criminal (...
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Monday, January 4, 2010

Judge orders courtroom spectators to submit to drug tests

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Benjamin Marchet of South Carolina has filed suit in Federal Court in Tennessee alleging that Dickson County (TN) Judge Durwood Moore ordere...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Harris County to institute "catch and release" policy

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The Harris County District Attorney's Office announced a change in its policy regarding arrests for trace amounts of drugs , particularl...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Harris County to fund public defender's office

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Harris County commissioners voted 5-0 to create a hybrid public defender's office in Harris County . Of course the devil of such a prop...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

Inspection turns up problems in the city jail, too

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This time it's the City of Houston facing criticism over the conditions at its two municipal jails. According to the Houston Chronicle ,...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Harris County to ship inmates to other Texas counties

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The Houston Chronicle reported today that Harris County is on the verge of entering into an agreement with four other counties to house Har...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Harris County trails only LA and NYC for largest daily jail population

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A quarter of the Harris County budget goes to fund law enforcement, with over $750,000 spent every day on inmates at the Harris County Jail,...
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