Dallas
County’s jails will soon be outfitted with video cameras so groups of
inmates don’t have to be shuttled back and forth to courtrooms to be
arraigned in front of a judge.
Instead, the judge will
speak with the defendants and their attorneys on a TV monitor.
Paperwork will be faxed. And jail guards can spend their time on more
important tasks.
County commissioners are expected next
week to approve spending $47,583 on a video arraignment system. A pilot
program that began about a month ago in the George Allen jail has
worked smoothly with no reported glitches.
Eventually, all of the jails will be outfitted with video communications equipment.
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Swanny Note: This is such a bad thing. Under the guise of being "thrifty"