{"id":478154,"date":"2021-05-06T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478154"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:20:49","slug":"bidens-nominee-for-ice-petitioned-court-to-release-violent-felons-from-prison-he-ran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-nominee-for-ice-petitioned-court-to-release-violent-felons-from-prison-he-ran\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Nominee For ICE Petitioned Court To Release Violent Felons From Prison He Ran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-nominee-for-ice-petitioned-court-to-release-violent-felons-from-prison-he-ran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1204962103.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The man President Joe Biden has picked to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted to get 1,500 inmates \u2013 including violent felons \u2013 released from the county jail he ran in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-ice-nominee-pushed-to-release-violent-felons-from-his-jail\/\">reported<\/a> that Harris County, Texas, sheriff Ed Gonzalez filed an emergency request to a federal court asking to release about 1,500 inmates from the county jail, which he ran. Gonzalez claimed the prison was overcrowded, even though it had an inmate population of 9,000 at the time \u2013 1,000 less than the number of inmates housed in 2018. Many of the inmates included in the release request were violent felons, according to court records reviewed by the Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County, which includes Houston, had been facing a massive spike in crime when Gonzalez made the request in January. The county had seen homicide cases increase by 25% since 2015, with assault cases nearly doubling, according to Harris County Justice Administration statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez petitioned the Texas Southern District Court in January to try to force the Harris County district attorney\u2019s office to release the prisoners, the Free Beacon reported, adding that the \u201cvast majority of inmates in the jail have been charged with felonies.\u201d Gonzalez in his petition insisted the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the release, but admitted \u201cthe current number of inmates and staff testing positive is currently relatively small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Gonzalez argued, the prison was overcrowded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe jail is bursting at the seams. Something must be done to reduce the population,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMany of the inmates\u2014pre-trial misdemeanors, state jail felonies without holds, other non-violent charges\u2014ought to be subject to release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez listed 1,500 inmates that could be eligible for release and sent it to the newly elected D.A. Kim Ogg, a progressive. Ogg, according to the Free Beacon, rejected Gonzalez\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the 1,543 defendants on the list sent to the district attorney by the Harris County sheriff, 1,148 defendants have an external hold or their pending case is violent,\u201d Ogg wrote. \u201cThe district attorney objects to lowering the bail for any of these individuals\u2019 cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the 395 remaining inmates on Gonzalez\u2019s list, Ogg wrote they \u201ccollectively have 823 pending cases [against them], many of which have a bond greater than $10,000. Many of these multiple arrestees were on bond when arrested for new offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ogg agreed to release just 60 of the 1,543 inmates Gonzalez proposed to release, writing that the sheriff\u2019s office omitted details about the inmates. From the Free Beacon:<\/p>\n<p>One of the prisoners on the list, who was charged with misdemeanor assault of a family member, was also facing probation violation and deferred felony charges for residential burglary and had waived bail hearings. The sheriff neglected to note that another inmate on the list, who had been indicted for felony theft, had previously been released on a reduced bond in an ongoing felony forgery case and was facing deportation when he was rearrested. Another prisoner, charged with violent misdemeanor terroristic threat, had previously been released on bond but had it rescinded twice for failing to comply with electronic monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office told the Free Beacon: \u201cEarly on in the pandemic, our agency provided the D.A. with a list of incarcerated people who were jailed for non-violent offenses so the D.A.\u2019s staff could look further into their cases to determine whether they should be eligible to await their trials outside of jail. The sheriff did not recommend that all of the people on this list be released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man President Joe Biden has picked to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted to get 1,500 inmates \u2013 including violent felons \u2013 released from the county jail he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277457,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1204962103.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Nominee For ICE Petitioned Court To Release Violent Felons From Prison He Ran","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1204962103.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Nominee For ICE Petitioned Court To Release Violent Felons From Prison He Ran","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}