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The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (1970) [3] allows for a trial of any untried indictment, information, or complaint within 180 days. [4] However, the prisoner needs to enter a request for final disposition to begin the clock. [ 5 ]
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
On July 13, 2019, another group of Democratic lawmakers visited migrant detention centers in McAllen, Texas, including a detention center that Vice President Pence had just visited the day before. Representative Jim McGovern tweeted that the migrants had not showered in 40 days, were sleeping on concrete with the lights on, and some migrants ...
Two former guards at the Allred Prison Unit near Wichita Falls are among 13 people indicted by a federal grand jury in San Antonio on allegations of smuggling drugs into state prisons.
This facility is adjacent to two other private prisons: the Willacy County Regional Detention Center, operated by the Management and Training Corporation housing federal prisoners for the U.S. Marshal Service, and the Willacy County State Jail, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the state of Texas. [7]
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is investigating two separate inmate deaths at state prisons this month in Lubbock and Amarillo. Inmate deaths at Texas state prisons in Lubbock, Amarillo ...
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 ...