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Report details Bexar jail days, indigence costs by judge

The Planning and Resource Management Team at the Bexar County Budget Division recently performed an analysis (which I obtained with an open records request) of court caseloads and costs by judge titled the "Bexar County Judicial Management Report." About 35% of misdemeanor court costs and 40% of felony district court costs stem from paying for indigent defense.The document is not online, but I derived this chart about dispositions, court-appointed attorney expenses and jail bed day per district judge from data presented in the report:Misdemeanor courts racked up another $2.8 million in indigent defense costs; the number of bed days associated with each misdemeanor judge, disappointingly, was not reported.Judge Mary Roman's low expenses per case on indigent defense particularly stand out...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 04, 2009 (boomark / email).