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Falls County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection

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The Falls County jail, in Marlin, Texas, recently failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). The TCJS inspected the Falls County, Texas jail on March 15, 2022. The Falls County jail is now listed as being non-compliant.

TCJS minimum standards require, for inmates without special issues, such as those exhibiting bizarre behavior and/or who are suicidal, that jailers perform face-to-face observations at least once every 60 minutes. However, the TCJS inspector found, apparently, although the report is ambiguous, that such intervals were exceeded by as few as 1 minute and by as many as 78 minutes.

Failing to conduct proper prisoner observations in Texas county jails can lead to serious injury or death. Hopefully, no such injury or death occurred in the Falls County jail, and the jail will remedy its issues.

Written By: author image Dean Malone
author image 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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