Over the last 190 days (since 12/23/25), we have used public data to identify:

70 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 11 days.

4 Dallas County inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who appear to be still currently incarcerated in Dallas County Jail beyond their sentence end date.

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 $95.58/day (the jail does not benefit financially from overstays)

We have identified 1,104 total days of overstay so far, at a total cost of $105, 520.32

We previously worked for two respected nonprofits to monitor a total of 1,183 bail hearings in three Texas counties.

For each hearing, we quantified the activities of the magistrates and the defendants as a data set.

One organization used some of the data in an application for a hearing at the United States Supreme Court. The other organization used some of the data in an effort to gain access to bail hearings.

Our founder completed this project before TJDIP was formed.

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.

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.

HollyStoneMcGowan@gmail.com