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  2. Texas Commission on Jail Standards - Wikipedia

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    The William P. Clements State Office Building houses the offices of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) is an agency of the Government of Texas. Headquartered in the William Clements State Office Building in Downtown Austin, the agency oversees county jails to ensure standards of construction ...

  3. Prison library - Wikipedia

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    Library Trends, 59(3), p. 386–408. Higgins Nick. 2017. Get Inside : Responsible Jail and Prison Library Service. Chicago Illinois: Public Library Association a division of the American Library Association. In the Margins Award- Annual Award for books that address the disproportionality of injustices experienced by BIPOC youth. Lehmann, V. (2011).

  4. Houston Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The city changed the name from Carnegie Library to Houston Public Library in 1921. By this time, they had outgrown their space and relocated several staff members to the Harris County Courthouse. A few years later, the library sold its property to raise money for a larger facility.

  5. In Texas, can you go to jail for not paying fines you cannot ...

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    Here’s what the Texas penal code on execution of judgment states: TITLE 1, Art. 43.03 A court may not order a defendant confined under Subsection (a) of this article unless the court at a ...

  6. Harris County, Texas jails - Wikipedia

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    By January 2012 the Harris County jails had 8,573, a decrease by 31% from 2008 to 2012, and there were only 21 inmates serving time in other jail facilities, all in Texas. [10] The jail population increased since the Texas Legislature cut its community mental health services funding by $400 million in 2003. Between 2004 and 2009 the population ...

  7. When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates ...

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    A man plays a game in the Brothers in Arms cell block, a new veteran-focused program, at the Harris County Joint Processing Center, part of the county jail system, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in ...

  8. Robertson County Courthouse and Jail - Wikipedia

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    After Robertson County's organization in 1838, the county seat moved several times. Planning for the new courthouse-jail complex in Franklin began after the 1879 general election concluded the county seat would move there from Calvert. As planned by Austin architect Frederick Ernst Ruffini, the site was to be on the main public square. The jail ...

  9. Jail making do with limited space - AOL

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