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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by 6stringmerc on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:11AM (#43482477)
Tarrant County. Mentally ill but competent to stand trial. I’m sure there’s more than one. Source: 1 year in lockup (solitary) with them, often criminal trespass or public urination charges.
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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by rafram on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:11AM (#43483101)
Not sure what you mean. Are you referring to a specific case?
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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by MSFT_Edging on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:43AM (#43483464)
This person's source is someone they spent a year in jail with.

Cases this small probably don't get articles written about them often. That's why we have the phrase "falling through the cracks"

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by rafram on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:34PM (#43484029)
I do not think that this person is… all there: https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/when-a-gypsy-woman-loses-he...
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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by JadeNB on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:32PM (#43484013)
> Source: 1 year in lockup (solitary) with them

As someone whose main knowledge of the US prison system is only from TV and not from first person (thankfully), I think I don't understand what "solitary" is. I thought the whole point of it was that the detained person didn't have contact with others?

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