tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post4637634738139978681..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Reduce Harris County Jail costs through smarter policiesGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-75506849912765413912011-05-03T20:43:03.363-05:002011-05-03T20:43:03.363-05:00Lowering bonds, means lowering the 10% fee to the ...Lowering bonds, means lowering the 10% fee to the bondsman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64016693774057014372011-05-02T19:49:22.175-05:002011-05-02T19:49:22.175-05:00The answer is simple (lower the bonds), but let’s ...The answer is simple (lower the bonds), but let’s not do that when we can spend tax dollars to create more government involvement. <br />The reporter(s) argument to save tax dollars is to spend tax dollars, (a lot of tax dollars), instead of cash for clunkers, they want cash for criminal welfare. Poorly constructed, poorly supervised criminal welfare that is poorly implemented by government employees whose concern is their paycheck and healthcare benefits which are both much more substantial than the rest of us and their responsibility is absolutely (zero).<br />Why is the only answer always to spend money we do not have?<br />What the hell is wrong with lowering the bond requirements? That could be done and Harris County wouldn’t even have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for outside help to (study) the problem.<br />People will not sit in jail if they can get out and they do, but for those whose bonds are ridiculously high they can’t. <br />Judges set high bail for a multitude of valid reasons and pretrial has a pitiful appearance track record for low level offenders with low bail, their ability to show better results with those who present a much higher flight risk potential makes the cash for criminal welfare an even bigger potential failure.<br />Private enterprise has real money on the line and they do not care if it is a large amount or small amount of money they still perform well at a cost of nothing to tax payers, in fact they (pay in) when their performance fails. Government never (ever) pays, they take and take and take some more, and always with lousy results.<br />Just lower the bonds and stop trying to spend our money!!!! Please…..<br />All class C misdemeanors taken to the Harris County Jail are being released now and have been for a very long time, the result has been the spending of ridiculous amounts of money for arrest, incarceration, courts and release with nothing, (zero), coming back in to the system. <br />Before this marvelous plan to help relieve jail overcrowding went into place, millions of dollars were generated through the prosecution of these scofflaws. And, these people typically made bail immediately and were released within a few short hours. <br />Now, these same people that had little if any impact on actual jail overcrowding issues due to longevity of incarceration cannot get released within a few short hours, they are stuck in jail for at least 24 hours. <br />Please stop trying to fix things, its hard telling how many of these people could have gone in and out of the jail without a hitch, then made it to work on time instead of possibly being fired or losing income because they couldn’t get out of jail. <br />Government is not the answer please stop trying to shove their help down our throats …. We just can’t afford their wonderful help anymore.<br />(JUST LOWER THE DAMN BONDS)titfortatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-9092541388584571982011-05-02T19:44:35.125-05:002011-05-02T19:44:35.125-05:00Why don't they use pretrial as originally inte...Why don't they use pretrial as originally intended instead of a mini-probation office as they do in Harris County? If they meet the criteria for bond, pay a small percentage of bond cost and get out of jail. The people who can't afford a bond and an attorney are generally the people who need a Pretrial bond the most. Harris County judges think they are being soft on crime if they allow someone to actually bond out using Pretrial. Their idea of justice is getting their dockets down by getting a plea out of someone on the the PIA. They are still in a contest with former judge Ted Poe who got his docket down by 12.44A and early terminating probation cases in December of each year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-62780646152019539662011-05-02T01:58:20.235-05:002011-05-02T01:58:20.235-05:00Fuggit. You get processed afer 5pm, you're goi...Fuggit. You get processed afer 5pm, you're going in front of a robo-judgethta defaults to decline. It's popular among the constabulary to nab folks coming off work for wareents for supportpayments. Those are only heard on Thursdays. Lottsa dangerous deadbeats out there, y'know. So the poor dumb SOB gets locked up for at least a week. Evewn if he's released on recog, he still is in stir until 5 minutes past midnight in the early hours of Saturday morning. If the poor f*ck still has a job on onday, he's still lost a week's income.<br />But, it's like, for the children, right? Or it least it looks like we vare, and clears some files. Low hanging fruit, and such.<br />Bastids.JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02448124833598565813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-54276324326306867762011-05-01T18:09:13.335-05:002011-05-01T18:09:13.335-05:00I've heard that electronic ankle bracelet moni...I've heard that electronic ankle bracelet monitors are the logical fix for this, but that the bail bonds industry had lobbied hard to prevent this technology from being used. Robert Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com