The largest jail in Texas “accidentally released” a convicted family-violence inmate who was scheduled for transport to prison. Fortunately, police recaptured the man ten hours later after family members turned him in.
. “Critics have coined the new and sinister name for the building located at 1200 Baker Street and the outcry against what’s happening there is growing,” the local Fox affiliate stated.
In September 2021, the Harris County Deputies Organization President David Cuevas filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Gonzalez and the Harris County Commissioners Court following years of failed jail inspections, Fox 26“Year after year of failed jail inspections,” Cuevas told Fox 26’s Greg Groogan. “2004, 2005, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2017. What else are we going to do? They do not care! They have failed at every level. They just don’t give a damn.
The jail was specifically cited for not performing timely visual checks on prisoners and for the long time it takes for people to be booked into the jail. The inspection also knocked the jail’s health care performance in triaging patients in nonemergency situations and said that in two instances, inmates didn’t received their prescribed medications on time.Cuevas described the impact of the lack of staffing in the jail in the Fox 26 interview with Greg Groogan.
“Let me tell you how bad it is, we have detention officers that are soiling themselves and urinating on themselves because there are not enough personnel to give them a break,” said Cuevas. “That is absolutely wrong and it falls at the feet of Commissioners Court.” The “accidental release” of the violent inmate appears to be the latest in a long list of failures in the Harris County Sheriff’s Office jail.
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