The Nueces County jail, in Corpus Christi, Texas, failed a Texas Commission on Jail Standards (“TCJS”) inspection in June 2021. The Nueces County jail is now listed as being non-compliant by the TCJS.
The TCJS inspector determined that several inmates were being held in holding cells for more than 48 hours. Also, inmates housed in a certain pod were not provided access to a day room for at least an hour each day, as required by minimum jail standards. Inmates in the same housing pod were not provided with the opportunity to have one hour of supervised physical recreation or exercise at least three days each week, as required by minimum jail standards.
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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