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These facilities lasted until 1931, when the State of Texas offered Travis County land for a courthouse to break its existing lease for the courthouse and jail. The resulting Travis County Courthouse is still in use today, but the courthouse jail closed in 1990 due to a 1972 lawsuit which deemed a jail above a county courthouse unconstitutional ...
An inmate's death at the Travis County Jail is being investigated, according to a news release issued Sunday by the Travis County sheriff's office. Jeffrey Pope, 30, was booked into the jail Feb ...
An inmate of the Travis County jail died Wednesday after spending days on life support, according to the sheriff's office.
A Travis County sheriff spokesperson said that all 57 of the arrests were made by the UT police department. Protesters faced criminal trespassing charges, a class B misdemeanor.
Travis County has held test runs of the program since April 23, but advocates said most people in jail are not provided an attorney during this critical juncture in the criminal justice process.
There are over 150 federal law enforcement offices in Texas. including those for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; United States Secret Service; Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and U.S. Marshals. [2]
In 2009, she became the first female District Attorney in Travis County. [3] Lehmberg served eight years as Travis County's district attorney before retiring in January 2017. [4] In 2013, she was arrested for and pleaded guilty to drunk driving. She was sentenced to forty-five days in jail. [5]
The ACLU of Texas is suing Travis County over the county's requirement for people to attend first court appearances even if they cannot afford an attorney.