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In February 2022, Acosta Jr. was indicted by the Dallas County court on a capital murder charge, [14] which can carry the death sentence in the state of Texas. [15] In February 2023, Acosta Jr. was found guilty of capital murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
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]
The prison for males, classified as a "prison," is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region VI. [ 1 ] The Robertson Unit has space for 1,244 inmates in General Population, plus a large Restricted Housing facility.
A Texas county has agreed to pay a group of female deputies $1.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they were abused and harassed when a constable's office turned undercover ...
On July 13, 2016, we published a database of more than 800 deaths that took place in jails and police lockups in the previous year. The government doesn't release this kind of data, and jails often aren't required to give out information about people who die in their custody, so we had to dig deep.
In the U.S. state of Texas, a constable is an elected law enforcement officer for a precinct of a county. Counties may have between one and eight precincts each depending on their population. The constables are provided for in the Texas Constitution of 1876 (Article 5, Section 18). The term of office for Texas constables is four years.
The man was housed in a general population cell where detention officers check the inmates every 40 minutes. Tarrant County Jail inmate found hanging in cell dies at Fort Worth hospital, officials say