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As of 2012 the Harris County jail facilities together have a capacity for 9,434 inmates; at time they have held over 12,000. Due to the excess number of prisoners, the HCSO had to ship inmates to other jails, including some in Louisiana; in June 2010 1,600 Harris County inmates were serving time at other jails. By January 2012 the Harris County ...
Harris County stated that the re-use of the warehouse saved the county about $21,000,000. About 600 sheriff's deputies and detention officers work in the facility. The county designates the 701 Jail as a "Direct Observation" facility, where staff members monitor inmates continuously for 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. [ 14 ]
Joe Kegans State Jail. Joe Kegans Intermediate Sanctions Facility is an Intermediate Sanctions facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice located along the northeast edge of Downtown Houston, Texas. [ 1 ] The approximately 1 acre (0.40 ha) facility for men is located .5 miles (0.80 km) south of Interstate 10.
The Harris County Jail is facing renewed scrutiny after failing to meet state regulations, with overcrowding, ... of the 7,466 inmates currently housed in the Harris County Jail, over 1,500 are ...
In Harris County, the average length of stay is nearly 200 days. For years, telecommunications companies have made money off of inmates by charging high rates for phone calls, in some cases up to ...
Garcia Glenn White was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters 35 years ago.The execution makes him the sixth death row inmate killed ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States.