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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.
Shearer said the Travis County Jail currently has a waitlist of up to a year for 131 people who have been deemed incompetent to stand trial and are waiting to be sent to a hospital. In the ...
A bond for a new jail was passed in 1978, and the new jail opened in July 1986. Because of overflow, a new facility with a capacity of 96 inmates was established in Del Valle, Texas. Now known as the Travis County Correctional Complex, the Del Valle facilities have expanded to a capacity of 2,300 inmates. [3]
The cause of death was hanging. In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards for failing to properly observe inmates. Jail or Agency: Bell County Jails; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/23/2016; Age at death: 45
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 ...
A spokesperson for the Travis County sheriff’s office said that the office does not comment on pending litigation. Of 161 in-custody deaths in Texas county jails in 2022, almost a fifth were ...
The prison opened in March 1990. [2] It was named after Governor of Texas William P. Clements.. In June 2013, according to a report surveying 92,449 adult inmates in 606 prisons, jails, and special confinement facilities from February 2011 to May 2012 by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, of the prisons holding men the Clements Unit had the eighth-highest rate of inmates who reported that ...