Nueces County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection

The Nueces County Jail, in Corpus Christi, Texas, failed an inspection occurring in or about June 2022. On July 29, 2022, the TCJS issued a notice of non-compliance. The TCJS found that multiple inmates had been held in holding cells for more than 48 hours. Moreover, the TCJS inspector determined that the jail had faced over population issues periodically since May 22, 2022, but never had communicated as much with the inspector or anyone else at the Texas Commission on Jail Standards until the inspector arrived on site for the inspection.

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspector also found that the downtown and annex facilities’ fire inspections were currently in a “failed” status. The TCJS inspector also found several items related to the sanitation plan, including food dried onto appliances in the kitchen, mold and mildew on the inside of the ice machine, a walk-in freezer cluttered with overturned boxes and open boxes with exposed freezer-burned food, and missing floor tiles in the kitchen. Further, there were 39 inmate beds out of commission due to broken intercoms. The TCJS inspector determined that such issue related directly to overcrowding issues during intake. Hopefully, the jail cured these issues, and no one was harmed as a result.

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.