When someone is locked up, they don’t stop being a father, mother, son or daughter, and...
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When someone is locked up, they don’t stop being a father, mother, son or daughter, and soon some Harris County family members will face driving more than 7 hours to see their loved one behind bars. Several years ago, the wife and child of an incarcerated man named Charles Davis on a trip to visit him, but much more commonly many families in Harris County simply won’t be able to afford the long trip.to send hundreds of jailed individuals to a privately operated prison in West Texas, adding to almost 600 people already sent out of the county, that group at a Louisiana jail.
It’s important to note that neither the County Commissioners Court nor Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has direct control over the jail population, and that commissioners faced a lack of other immediately viable options to address the dangerous conditions in the Harris County Jail. But the drawbacks to outsourcing are significant, and go well beyond the cost to taxpayers.
For starters, pretrial defendants housed near Lubbock or in Louisiana will likely have far less access to in-person meetings with their attorneys and
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