A bill that would have required that Texas county jails release inmates only during daylight hours didn’t pass in the last legislative session, but at least one jail is doing it anyway.

The Harris County Jail — the largest local lockup in Texas — only discharges inmates who have served their sentence during daylight hours, which the bill would have made mandatory. Other county jails, however, don’t have these policies in place and don’t plan to create them. Some believe that as long as transportation is available, inmates should be released at any time. Others think mandating daylight release ...

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