Texas Jail Data
INSIGHT PROJECT
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Our mission: We work collaboratively with jails and partner organizations to gather, process, and interpret data in order to support informed, data-driven improvements in detention environments.
We maintain an objective, data-driven approach. We do not engage in advocacy activities.
Dallas County inmate overstay data project (as of 10/20/26)
Dallas County inmate overstay data project (as of 10/20/26)
Over the last 301 days (since 12/23/25), we have used public data to identify:
114 Dallas County inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who appear to have been released from Dallas County Jail after their sentence end date.
The median overstay for these inmates is 10 days.
1,559 combined days of apparent overstay.
9 inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who appear to be currently incarcerated in Dallas County Jail beyond their sentence end date.
67 Dallas County inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who were released on time.
These cases represent only those discovered through independent monitoring of the Dallas County Jail's public online records. Because this methodology does not capture every incarcerated individual or every instance of delayed release, the findings should be considered a subset of the actual overdetention occurring within the Dallas County Jail system.
When we find a probable overstay, we send the inmate's information to Dallas County with an escalation request for review and release of the inmate. Sometimes it is already in process.
Overstays cost Dallas County jail $98.26/day (the jail does not benefit financially from overstays).
Because we use only public data, this is best-effort. The quantity of our data collection has increased each month. Dallas County does not provide data, so the above reflects only what we find manually.
Indigence data project
Indigence data project
To verify whether indigent defendants in a Texas county were receiving public defenders or court-assigned attorneys in the correct proportion, we reviewed 1,310 cases on behalf of a legal nonprofit and created a data set for them.
Our founder completed this project before TJDIP was formed.
Most of this is gruntwork...
Most of this is gruntwork...
Policymakers, legal professionals, journalists, incarceration professionals and community organizations) who want to make positive changes in incarceration sometimes need of data sets to analyze.
But they don't have the luxury of having someone to gather this data. That's where we come in.
The incarceration industry does not have sophisticated technology. Therefore, most of what we do requires a lot of manual effort. Go to a site, click here, cut-and-paste into a spreadsheet, categorize the info, repeat.
We are glad to do this gruntwork at no charge so that others can make improvements in incarceration. Please reach out if you need this help.
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