Dickens County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection

The Dickens County jail, in Spur, Texas, failed a Texas Commission on Jail Standards (“TCJS”) inspection. The inspection occurred on October 15, 2021.

The TCJS inspector noted that staff were not completing the Screening Form for Suicide and Medical/Mental/Developmental Impairments in its entirety. This was also an area of technical assistance provided to the Dickens County jail during the 2020 inspection. Our Texas jail neglect law firm unfortunately handles a number of suicide cases in which the referenced screening form is not completed in its entirety, or not completed at all. It is extremely important for jailers, during the intake process, to not only complete the form, but act on information obtained as a result. Texas law requires that jails notify a judge in the event questions are answered in a certain way. Hopefully, the failure to complete the report in the Dickens County jail did not lead to any injury or death.

Written By: Dean Malone

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.