Nueces County Tx Attorneys

Authorities in Nueces County, Texas, had a choice to make: With an inmate population that overstepped the county jail's capacity, the local government could expend millions of dollars to build a new jail, or it could broaden a contract for extra jail space. It preferred neither option, adjudicating instead to adopt a proposal that would trim back the number of convicts and save the county more than $300,000 every year.

Situated in southeast Texas, Nueces County is seated in Corpus Christi and is residence to 313,650 residents. In the last five years, the county's population has spring up an average of 2 percent yearly, but, this year, it was the inmate population that grabbed the local officials' attention.The Nueces County Jail houses 972 inmates. By September 2002, inmates outnumbered beds, forcing the county to sign up with neighboring Brooks County for additional jail space. Paying for an typical of 40 inmates a day, the county's annual costs for contract living accommodations would reach $496,000.
A two-year ascent in gang-related crimes contributed to the development inmate population. At the equivalent time, the county missed a systematic method for moving criminal cases through the courtrooms.
 

The backlog of legal actions - including gang-related crimes and other felonies - welled, and the county's 16 prosecutors were not sufficiency to make a dent in it. By January 2003, more than half of the county's inmates were being restrained on felony charges, not able to post bond and awaiting trial.
Recognizing the require to trim back the number of pretrial inmates, County Judge Terry Shamsie set out to streamline adjudication. He convened a series of meetings with spokespersons of the Sheriff's Office, Police Department, District Attorney's Office and District Clerk's Office, and the group carried out several measures for minimising trial delays. Shamsie also recommended that, by hiring more prosecutors and designating them solely to jailed defendants, the county can reduce its backlog of cases considerably.