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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a department of the government of the U.S. state of Texas.The TDCJ is responsible for statewide criminal justice for adult offenders, including managing offenders in state prisons, state jails, and private correctional facilities, funding and certain oversight of community supervision, and supervision of offenders released from prison on ...
The first jail in Travis County was authorized in 1847 and constructed on what is now known as the Old Courthouse block of downtown Austin. When this facility was destroyed by a fire in 1855, a new jail was built on the site the following year. This iteration of the jail and county courthouse lasted until 1906. [3]
This is a list of state prisons in Texas.. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
An Austin police officer is in jail in Williamson County after turning himself in for two charges related to injury to a child, according to the Cedar Park Police Department.
Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison ; it was superseded by ...
When the courthouse opened in 1931 it did so with a jail on the top floor. [4] From 1962 to 1964, this jail was expanded to additional floors. [5] In December 1972, twelve inmates brought suit against the county, alleging that the conditions in the then 280-person jail on the top two floors of the courthouse constituted cruel and unusual ...
Nov. 27—An Austin man with three active cases involving drug possession, use and sales has been charged in a fourth case. Casey Steven Bell, 25, was in Mower County District Court on Monday ...
What is 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' about? The series follows a group of inmates at Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock, Arkansas as they take part in a social experiment.