{"id":953488,"date":"2021-01-14T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=953488"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:09:33","slug":"several-east-texas-jails-do-not-pass-minimum-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=953488","title":{"rendered":"Several East Texas jails do not pass minimum standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"EAST TEXAS — A recent look at conducted state jail inspections, reveals three East Texas jails did not pass the minimum standards of state reviews. According to our news partner KETK, 21 jails currently do not meet minimum standards set by the state. Cass, Cherokee, Harrison, and Marion County are below acceptable status. The jail commission said, jails are placed on the non-compliant list once county officials receive notice of non-compliance, said information from the jail commission. Jails are removed from the list after the problems are corrected.
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CASS COUNTY
\nThe jail was inspected on Nov. 19. Inspectors found:
\n A generator did not work when power was disconnected
\n Tests of the generator were not conducted from January to October 2020
\n Repairs to a fire alarm system had not been made
\n Staff had not been trained on classification duties
\n Staff did not always observe inmates as required
\n Staff did not document that inmates were receiving recreation time<\/p>\n

HARRISON COUNTY
\nThe jail was inspected on Dec. 15-16. Inspectors found:
\n Records did not indicate that inmates were given medicine as required by a physician
\n The staff stopped an inmate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medicine of 10 days after only seven days
\n The staff exceeded requirements of checking on inmates by up to 22 minutes
\n The staff did not document that it was doing face-to-face check of inmates as required<\/p>\n

CHEROKEE COUNTY
\nThe jail was inspected on Oct. 15. Inspectors found:
\n The assessment of inmates did not always take place quick enough or often enough
\n The jail had mold in a shower, no working water in some sinks, low hot water pressure in some sinks
\n There were holes in a wall
\n Lights were out in some places
\n An intercom was broken
\n Mold was in a food walk-in cooler
\n Food was on the floor of a walk-in cooler and walk-in freezer
\n Bedding was on the floor of a laundry room and trash and clothes were behind washers and dryers
\n Staff did not document that inmates were receiving recreation time <\/p>\n

MARION COUNTY
\nThe jail was inspected on Dec. 18. Inspectors found:<\/p>\n

Staff had not completed classification training
\n An audit of the classification system had not been conducted
\n Staff did not document that inmates were receiving recreation time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EAST TEXAS — A recent look at conducted state jail inspections, reveals three East Texas jails did not pass the minimum standards of state reviews. According to our news partner KETK, 21 jails currently do not meet minimum standards set by the state. Cass, Cherokee, Harrison, and Marion County are below acceptable status. The jail … Continue reading Several East Texas jails do not pass minimum standards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":953508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Jail-150x127.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Several East Texas jails do not pass minimum standards","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 06:44:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/01\/Jail-150x127.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Several East Texas jails do not pass minimum standards","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953490,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953488\/revisions\/953490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/953508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}