A Public Servant.

An Article posted by the writer Forrest Wilder talks about the Executive Director of the Texas Commissions of Jail Standards. He talks about the duties and workmanship of the director, Adan Munoz, who he believes is a true public servant. With a budget less than a million granted by our state government and five inspectors, he oversees a number of 245 county jails. These jails always seem to be overcrowded, understaffed, and short of regular medical care. Adan Munoz has experience of 40 years of law enforcement experience and has gotten the reputation of being the commission’s watchdog. The Commission was formed in 1975 to please the federal courts that were handling cases of inhumane conditions in the jails. It is up Adan Munoz to crack down on the jails that are not up to commission standards. For example, Adan Munoz had issued a surprise inspection to the Bexar County jail where a number of suicides had happened. The inspector was able to gather that the guard failed to make the proper check of the cell the night where an inmate hung himself with a cloth. By cracking down on these county jails, Munoz can make sure that fewer incidents like this happen. It’s important for Texas citizens to know what's happening behinds bars just as much as outside the jails as all the inmates in there are not all murderers. With tax payer money being budgeted to the commission, it is important to know about the executive director and how he uses his resources.