Kinney County Jail is in Brackettville, Texas 78832 at 109 North Street. The jail can be reached at the phone number (830) 563-2788. The inmate capacity at Kinney County Jail is 28. The Kinney County Sheriff has the duty of handling jail operations, and the responsibility includes adhering to minimum jail standards. Those standards are determined and enforced by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS).

Restraint Chairs

Jail facilities such as Kinney County Jail Are permitted to use various types of restraints. Among those that can be utilized according to TCJS guidelines is a restraint chair. The following criteria apply to the use of restraint chairs:

• The only types of restraint chairs that can be used are professionally manufactured and approved by TCJS.
• The following actions can only be taken by a detention officer who has been trained in the proper use of a restraint chair:
  • Provide authorization for an inmate to be placed in the chair and
  • Provide supervision of an inmate who has been placed in a restraint chair.
• The following guidelines pertain to length of confinement in a restraint chair:
  • As soon as inmates are no longer a threat to themselves or others and can be reasonably controlled by jail staff, they must be released.
  • A resident must be considered for removal from the restraint chair at certain intervals, depending on whether the inmate is an adult or juvenile.
  • The maximum amount of time that a juvenile can be confined in a restraint chair is 1 hour unless the facility administrator or designee authorizes lengthier confinement and only after the inmate has been examined by a licensed medical professional.

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