A Dallas woman arrested on a misdemeanor in early December was supposed to be home before the holidays, not sitting in a cell watching the calendar. Instead, she stayed behind bars after local officials missed a statutory release window. Her case is one of several recent examples that reporters and advocates say show county jails across Texas are blowing past state-mandated deadlines. Those missed clocks have not only kept people jailed longer than the statutes allow, they have also triggered legal claims that have cost some counties money in settlements.
As reported by CBS Austin, which republished reporting from The Texas Tribune, multiple Texas counties have faced payouts after jails failed to free people when the law required it, and the state does not…..