Posts Tagged ‘ Texas Jail Standards Commission ’

Updated: Huddleston announces run, swipes at Ratliff

By Bill Peterson | November 6th, 2009 | Category: Cops & Courts, Hays County, Home, Top Stories | 34 comments

Bill Huddleston, the Democratic Party’s 2008 nominee for Hays County Sheriff, announced Friday that he will take another crack at that office in the 2010 election, pitting himself squarely against Sheriff Tommy Ratliff, a Democratic who announced his intention for a 2010 run when the Hays County Commissioners appointed him last December to replace the late Sheriff Allen Bridges.


State orders county jail kitchen shut down

By Bill Peterson | November 5th, 2009 | Category: Cops & Courts, Hays County, Top Stories | No Comments »

The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) ordered Hays County to close its jail kitchen within two weeks and to continue fixing water leakage problems that have rendered some cells uninhabitable.