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Commission on Jail Standards: Toothless Watchdog?

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Is the Texas Commission on Jail Standards too cozy with the county jails it regulates because it's "dominated by law enforcement interests"? That's the question posed in a story by Brandi Grissom today at the Texas Tribune. Commissioners affiliated with county jails must abstain when TCJS is evaluating their home facility comes up, notes Executive Director Adan Muñoz, but the bigger issue raised would be whether commissioners are willing to set general standards high enough out of fear their own county might not pass muster.I don't know whether it has anything to do with the makeup of the Commission so much as the will of the Legislature, but of even greater concern to me, especially among large counties, there's an extent to which TCJS is pretty much all bark and no bite...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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