Dallas, Tarrant County jails face staffing crisis with hundreds of guard vacancies

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price explains a problem that is handcuffing Dallas County: there aren’t enough guards for the county jail.

“I have the second largest population in the state, I have 7,600 individuals. I got 187 vacancies,” said Price.

Those 187 vacancies leave Price and the county short of the 1,450 detention officers he says are needed to meet state regulations to run a county jail…

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