One of the purposes of incarceration is to penalize criminal offenders for breaking the law. However, protecting the civil rights of inmates is also critically important under the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In the past few weeks, the Harris County Hail...
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Texas county and city at odds over prisoner housing costs
If you drive 85 miles east of Houston, you’ll find yourself in the City of Beaumont, the seat of Jefferson County. The city and the county are in a long-running feud over the fees charged by the county to house prisoners. Dispute headed to court Five years ago,...
Pandemic stalls Texas courts and fills some county jails
The pandemic has upended much of everyday life, including in the Texas criminal justice system. In order to slow the spread of Covid-19 and to avoid having judges and jurors exposed to Covid-19, most counties haven’t held any criminal jury trials since March of last...