Over the last 312 days (since 12/23/25), we have used public data to identify:

124 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.

1,644 combined days of apparent overstay. 

4 inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who appear to be currently incarcerated in Dallas County Jail beyond their sentence end date.  (One is currently on her 15th day of overstay.)

73 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, these findings should be considered a subset of the actual number of overstays occurring within the Dallas County Jail system. 

When we find a probable overstay, we send the inmate's information to Dallas County with a request to review it. Sometimes it is already in process.

Overstays cost Dallas County jail $98.26/day (the jail does not benefit financially from overstays).

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.

To evaluate the quality of bail hearings received by Dallas County defendants, we watched 740 bail hearings and translated the observations into a data set that was used by a legal nonprofit for a class action lawsuit that was submited to the United States Supreme Court. 

To evaluate the quality of bail hearings received by Harris County defendants, we watched 53 bail hearings for another nonprofit's class action lawsuit.

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 datato analyze. 

But they don't have the luxury of having someone to gather this data. That's where we come in. 

The incarceration industry generally 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.