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David Hall, executive director of the nonprofit Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, oversees the program. He says the results were eye-opening. Before the program, Hall says, people who couldn't afford an attorney were "basically rotting in jail"- a Del Rio jail in this case, run by GEO Group Inc. "We've seen people sitting in jail that have been there longer than their actual sentence would have been," Hall says. Six months after the pilot program began, the jail's average daily occupancy dropped from 100 prisoners to 50, Hall says, saving Val Verde County alone about $1.3 million.
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Poor Defendants
TEXAS' LONG AND TROUBLESOME INDIGENT-DEFENSE record is Uttered with tales of court-appointed att...
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