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Angelina County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection

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The Angelina County jail, in Lufkin, Texas, is now listed as being non-compliant by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (”TCJS”). The TCJS inspected the jail on March 1, 2021. Hopefully, the Angelina County jail will bring itself into compliance with TCJS minimum standards.

The TCJS inspector found, when reviewing medication administration records, that those records failed to show that medications were being distributed to prisoners in accordance with written instructions from a physician. The TCJS inspector also noted, regarding inmate observations, that restraint logs indicated that Angelina County jail staff exceeded the required 15-minute observation checks by as little as one minute and by as many as nine minutes, on multiple occasions.

Written By: author avatar Dean Malone
author avatar Dean Malone
Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
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