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Leadership needed to reduce Harris County jail overcrowding

Both Dallas and Harris Counties are up on today's Texas Commission on Jail Standards agenda (pdf), and I'd be headed up there to listen in if paying work didn't obligate me to focus my attention elsewhere. In the meantime, Brandi Grissom has a story at the Texas Tribune on overcrowding at the Harris County Jail based on a letter (pdf) from legislators to TCJS' Adan Munoz and the executive director's response (pdf). Sheriff Adrian Garcia replied (pdf) to both, and Grissom runs through the highlights of the exchange. I was particularly interested in Sheriff Garcia's brief mention that he's considering allowing his deputies to issue a summons/citation for low-level Class B misdemeanors, as authorized by the Legislature in 2007 to help reduce overcrowding...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).