By BJ Austin
Dallas, TX – The Dallas County Jail gets an INCOMPLETE on its latest report card from a team of inspectors. The team is part of a federal lawsuit over medical care and sanitation, and visited the jails in April.
The report, filed in the court case, says Dallas County inmates still don't get proper medical treatment. That is NOT what County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield wants to hear.
Mayfield: I'm disappointed because there's a lot of things in there that should have already been taken care of: people getting their medication; people not being seen in an appropriate amount of time; cleanliness in a lot of areas. I mean, these are things that have been worked on and worked on. I don't understand why they can't be resolved.
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez disagrees.
Valdez: We have repaired problems in the jail that have existed for decades.
Commissioner John Wiley Price says it will take time to fix 19 years of neglect, and the county has made great strides over the past three years.
Commissioner Mayfield says lack of management is the overriding problem. Dallas County has spent 110 million dollars on jail improvements over the past three years.