Parmer County Jail is in Farwell, Texas 79325 at 300 4th Street. The jail can be contacted at the phone number (806) 481-3303. The inmate capacity at Parmer County Jail is 49. The Parmer County Sheriff’s duties include jail operations, which must comply with standards created by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). Each year, TCJS inspects Parmer County Jail to ensure that minimum jail standards are being met. The same is true for all city and county jails in Texas, and non-compliant detention facilities are subjected to heightened scrutiny.
Restraints
For occasions when inmates’ behavior threatens injurious harm to themselves or others, jailers such as the staff at Parmer County Jail can use TCJS-approved restraints. Among the approved restraints are two that have been associated with custodial deaths in various parts of the nation, those being restraint chairs and WRAP restraint devices. Both can prevent inmates from moving their limbs, and they also keep inmates in an upright position.
Medical care is an essential consideration when inmates are placed in restraint chairs and other types of restraints. In fact, the jail standards related to restraints are in the TCJS section of the Texas Administrative Code under health services. An inmate is not supposed to be placed in a restraint unless a qualified person has made a medical assessment of the inmate’s health condition.
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