The Eastland County jail, in Eastland, Texas, recently failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). The Eastland County jail is thus listed at the TCJS website as being non-compliant.
The TCJS inspector, during reviewing restraint logs, noted that observation checks of inmates restrained with a WRAP system were not conducted within the required 15-minute time window. Checks were being conducted at 20-minute intervals and this was in accordance with departmental policy. Thus, departmental policy apparently did not comply with state law. It is extremely important to conduct appropriate observations of inmates, or serious injury and/or death could occur.
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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.
Dean Malone