Over the last 267 days (since 12/23/25), we have used public data to identify:

100 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.

53 Dallas County inmates who were released on time.

5 inmates sentenced to State Jail or Prison who appear to be 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 1,412 total days of apparent overstay so far, at an estimated cost of $134,958

We are seeing improvement since we began collecting data. 

Because we use only public data, this is best-effort. The quantity of our data collection increased each month. Dallas County does not provide data, so the above reflects only what we find manually.

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.