I identified one simple fix for the Harris County jail overcrowding problem yesterday, but there is another, hopefully more permanent solution, one that can be implemented in six months' time. As Grits puts it:
As long as Sheriff Thomas, Chuck Rosenthal, and Houston's current crop of ex-prosecutor judges runs the show, however, such a review would be pointless. The problems were identified years ago, the solutions all proposed, but if the elected people currently in charge won't embrace them, what can you do?
Overcrowding would stop once defendents and baliffs had to remain in the courtroom until a cell was procured.
Posted by: Charles Hixon on May 7, 2008 12:06 PM