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Just in passing, I
was told by someone from the Sheriff's Office, that the inmate Jason, I
believe is his name, who is here on a bench warrant from Texas Department of
Corrections gets to go home to visit his parents every Sunday and spend the
day. I have met the guy, and I thought that he was OK, but holy shit,
he is a convicted felon. He was convicted of Felony
Possession of a Fire Arm. I did not know it at the time, but when I
was working on the County Attorney's Computers, Jason came in and picked up
a nice Nickel Plated High Power Rifle, with an excellent High Power Scope on
it from the corner of Investigator Perkins office and was pointing it out
the window of the courthouse looking through the scope, across the parking
lot. Investigator Perkins was right there and said absolutely nothing
to him. I saw this with my own two beady eyes. I don't
believe it was loaded, but who can be sure. Is it not a
violation of Texas Criminal Statutes to provide access to a firearm to a
convicted felon of any type? A felon is a felon Appointed Sheriff Reed. You don't let them go home on the weekends, you don't let them run around with keys to the Jail, and you damn sure don't let them handle firearms, be they loaded or unloaded. I was also told that you let the inmates have "Contact Visits". Does "Contact Visits" mean what I think it does? These kinds of visits could allow contraband into the jail because there are not enough jailers on duty to watch them. Someone could possibly smuggle in a weapon. This is not "BOY SCOUT CAMP", IT IS A COUNTY JAIL. The next thing I will hear after them being allowed to smoke is that they have a still, and make Shine like on M.A.S.H. right inside the jail. I just received a telephone call, from a person was reading this, and the person told me that the S.O. is like a revolving door. This inmate is not the only one being allowed to leave the jail. With this going on, are we sure that some of these inmates are not going out and committing other criminal offenses while they are in the County Jail? Maybe Investigator Hamrick, the person you are looking so hard for through your Crime of the Week that broke into the courthouse is right under you nose in the Jail House. Wasn't the crime committed on a Weekend? The Courthouse is right across the street from the S.O. Why would anyone want to break into a Courthouse. There are only Records there. Wait a minute....... there are only records there. I bet this is the only county in the entire State of Texas that has ever had their Courthouse broken into rather than broken out of!!!! Appointed Sheriff Terry Reed, and Chief Deputy Larry Spangler definitely have warped sense's of law enforcement when they let any felon who is supposed to be in Huntsville Prison, live at the County Jail, and go home on weekends. They are also warped if they are letting other inmates leave and come back like a revolving door on an outhouse. 4/9/2006 18:14 I received another call that definitely verified that Jason was not at the County Clerks office during the counting. He may have been there for some reason for a while, but this caller who was at the Courthouse the night the voter results were coming in and a person that I trust, told me that Jason was at the Courthouse sitting in the County Judges office. This is is just as bad, when the County Judge knows that he is out and about, and lets the situation continue. What kind of Government do we have? Why do our officials think it is OK to let this inmate go freely about his business when he is supposed to be locked up at Huntsville. If they needed him to do something they could always go and get him, and when he finished take him back. Any One of the officials can try and say this is not a fact, but with so many people saying that this is happening, something is definitely going on like this or I would not be receiving so many calls about it. This revolving door policy has been confirmed by three S.O. Personnel, and several private citizens who have had relatives locked in jail that have seen it happening, and have seen it themselves while visiting. If this article doesn't make you upset, think of it this way; what if the Texas Department of Corrections decided to have this same REVOLVING DOOR POLICY with all of their Convicted Felons and Inmates. Does this make the picture any clearer? If TDC adopted this policy, we might as well close down the prisons in the State of Texas! Is this the kind of law enforcement that we want in Red River County. I'm sorry but Jason broke the law, was convicted, and sentenced to prison. Need I say more? You boys started digging this hole, now we are just helping you spread the dirt!!!! |