Non-Compliant Jail Reports
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) has four inspectors who are required to conduct at least a yearly inspection of the 241 county jails in our state to ensure that they are in compliance with the Texas Minimum Jail Standards as codified in the Texas Administrative Code, Title 37, Part 9. When jails are found to be out of compliance, the commission files a report which is used as the basis for inquiry at the quarterly hearings–attended by the Sheriffs–of the TCJS on the State Capitol.
These reports are also available on the TCJS website but only for a short time. Once they’re taken off, it takes an expensive FOIA request to acquire them. We are working on getting as many of these reports as possible. Our hope is to track the jails that are repeat offenders and find a pattern of neglect, abuse and/ deaths in custody.
| Resolved | Date | County | Notes | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | 05/02/2014 | Falls County Jail | May 2nd 2014 - April 2nd 2017. Inspection reports acquired as part of a Public Information Request by Texas Jail Project. ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 05/23/2013 | Falls County Jail | Reports from Jan 2000-May 2013 acquired as part of a Public Information Request by ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 02/22/2018 | Falls County Jail | view | |
| Resolved | 06/19/2018 | Falls County | view | |
| Active | 04/22/2019 | Zavala County Jail | view | |
| Resolved | 03/20/2019 | Washington County Special | view | |
| Active | 12/19/2018 | Waller County Jail | Waller County Jail keeps failing inspections but the county does nothing to fire Sheriff Glenn Smith. He should have been relieved from his position years ago when Sandra Bland died here and he tried ... read more | view |
| Active | 12/12/2018 | Victoria County Jail | Victoria County Jail is the reason Texas Jail Project came into being. Diane Wilson was held here for over three months in 2005-2006. 21 year old Shandra Williams gave birth alone in a solitary cell ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 11/14/2018 | Van Zandt County Jail | view | |
| Resolved | 04/03/2019 | Smith County Jail | Interesting that the inspection was conducted from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2019 and only one violation listed. Either this a great jail or...no it's not. Texas Jail Project receives many ... read more | view |
| Active | 04/12/2019 | Runnels County | view | |
| Resolved | 06/26/2018 | Robertson County | Repeated inspections. Repeated violations. And still no remediation as of May 9th ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 10/26/2018 | Robertson County Reinspection | view | |
| Resolved | 02/28/2018 | Robertson County | view | |
| Active | 03/15/2019 | Polk County Jail | view | |
| Resolved | 03/11/2019 | McLennan - P (Jack Harwell Detention Center) | Texas Jail Project receives so many emails and phone calls about this jail which is operated by La Salle Southwest Corrections. In the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature, HB 2467 and HB 3775 were ... read more | view |
| Active | 01/30/2019 | Maverick (P) Eagle Pass Correctional Facility | It's a jail run by the GEO Group. See this news item of a custody death in January of 2019. ... read more | view |
| Active | 04/22/2019 | Liberty County | Houston Chronicle Article from May 3rd 2015: State inspectors find deficiencies at Liberty County Jail after recent deaths After two deaths, inspection finds several ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 10/06/2017 | Kinney County Special | This report has stayed on the Commission's site for a year and a half now. ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 05/29/2018 | Kinney County | This jail has been on the non-compliant list for almost a year now. And no signs that they are working on fixing any of the violations listed in the ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 10/16/2018 | Jim Hogg | view | |
| Resolved | 03/27/2019 | Jefferson County | view | |
| Active | 02/25/2019 | Hunt County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/11/2019 | Haskell P - Rolling Plains Detention Center | Very disturbing violations that were found back on September 8th 2018 and have not been remedied. TB plan is out of date and 38 NFPA violations give us great cause for ... read more | view |
| Active | 03/04/2019 | Harrison County | Two days before uploading this report, a TJP staffer had a disturbing conversation with a middle-aged woman who was held in the suicide watch cell in this county jail for more than two weeks. In all ... read more | view |
| Active | 04/23/2019 | Hardin County | view | |
| Resolved | 12/05/2018 | Goliad County | This jail has stayed on the non-compliant list for more than 6 months ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 05/11/2018 | Frio County | view | |
| Active | 03/13/2019 | Freestone County | view | |
| Active | 04/17/2019 | Falls County Special | This was the second inspection conducted within three weeks of the first inspection which showed 14 serious violations. Executive Director of the Jail Commission called out the Sheriff on the ... read more | view |
| Active | 04/10/2019 | Coryell County | Wrongful death lawsuit against two Coryell County jailers set for next ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 04/24/2019 | Callahan County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/16/2019 | Bowie County | view | |
| Active | 02/19/2019 | Bexar County | view | |
| Resolved | 02/12/2019 | Harris County | view | |
| Active | 04/22/2019 | Liberty County Jail | When officials addressed the violations that led to the failed inspection, at the recent quarterly meeting of the Jail Commission in Austin, they kept saying, "We are not perfect!" It's a sad joke ... read more | view |
| Active | 03/22/2019 | Falls County | "Not fit to house a dog!" That's how the Falls County Jail has been described unofficially by the Jail Commission. On March 12th 2019, we received an anonymous phone call from an employee at the ... read more | view |
| Resolved | 04/12/2017 | Maverick County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/13/2017 | Kinney County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/28/2016 | Houston County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/20/2016 | Hopkins County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/22/2017 | Frio County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/24/2017 | Falls County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/16/2017 | El Paso County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/12/2016 | Edwards County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/10/2017 | Duval County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/27/2017 | Dimmit County | view | |
| Resolved | 10/18/2018 | Dallas County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/20/2017 | Bosque County | view | |
| Resolved | 11/17/2016 | Yoakum County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/21/2017 | Wise County | view | |
| Resolved | 10/12/2016 | Wheeler County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/21/2017 | Waller County | view | |
| Resolved | 08/15/2016 | Van Zandt County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/16/2016 | Trinity County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/15/2016 | Sutton County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/21/2016 | Stephens County | view | |
| Resolved | 01/04/2017 | San Patricio County | view | |
| Resolved | 02/17/2017 | San Saba County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/15/2016 | San Jacinto County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/01/2017 | Red River County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/23/2017 | Reagan County | view | |
| Resolved | 09/20/2016 | Pecos County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/30/2017 | Nueces County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/14/2017 | Baylor County | view | |
| Resolved | 04/19/2017 | Bastrop County | view | |
| Resolved | 03/09/2017 | Angelina County | view |