{"id":49,"date":"2024-01-25T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.104\/enfold-blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:03:32","slug":"dallas-county-jail-passes-state-jail-inspection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/dallas-county-jail-passes-state-jail-inspection\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County Jail Passes State Jail Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jzsqvie3-767178f25e92208e246ebb36be0f9002 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Dallas-County-Jail-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4431 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GOLD-STAMP-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GOLD-STAMP-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GOLD-STAMP-495x393.png 495w, https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GOLD-STAMP.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS<\/strong> \u2013 January 16, 2026 &#8211; The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) has completed its comprehensive inspection of the Dallas County Jail, and the Dallas County Jail passed inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Commission on Jail Standards is the state regulatory board for all county jails in the State of Texas. The commission is charged with conducting regular unannounced inspections of county jails.<\/p>\n<p>The inspections allow the professional examiners to see how and if the day-to-day operations of the county jail are within state standards.<\/p>\n<p>The areas assessed include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanitation<\/li>\n<li>Health Services<\/li>\n<li>Food Service<\/li>\n<li>Clothing &amp; Personal Hygiene<\/li>\n<li>Life Safety Rules<\/li>\n<li>Education &amp; Rehabilitation Programs<\/li>\n<li>Recreation<\/li>\n<li>Records and Procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The TCJS began its inspection of the Dallas County Jail on Tuesday, January 13, and concluded on Thursday, January 15.\u00a0 Deputy Director Tim Armstrong congratulated the Sheriff\u2019s Department on a \u201cclean inspection,\u201d citing that it\u2019s commendable that the inspection did not yield even a Technical Assistance Memo (matters that needed corrective action), \u201c&#8230; especially a jail of this size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Brown states, \u201cThese inspections continue to represent our accountability to the community.\u00a0 The passing results emphasize the hard work produced daily by the employees of the Dallas County Sheriff\u2019s Department.\u00a0 We\u2019re committed to being good stewards, and this inspection verifies that commitment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Diocese of Dallas holds &#8220;Blue Mass&#8221; to honor First Responders<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Mass is a Mass celebrated annually in the Catholic Church for those employed in the field of public safety, i.e. police officers, firefighters, correctional officers, 911 operators, EMS personnel, and all first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}