Updates, announcements and historical coverage from Houston Recovery Center.
Houston Chronicle | February 28, 2012
City officials plan to open a “sobering center” at the Star of Hope Mission downtown later this year. It would be an 84-bed facility that would allow people whose only offense is being drunk to bypass jail. Houston police arrest 19,000…
Houston Mayor’s Office | February 28, 2012
Houston Mayor Annise Parker today unveiled the first phase of her plan to help address overcrowding in the city jail. The new approach diverts public intoxication cases from the jail to a Sobering Center to receive…
Houston Public Media | February 26, 2012
Before getting into politics, Councilmember Ed Gonzalez was a Houston police officer for 18 years. He’s used that experience to launch an idea that would change how the Houston Police Department responds to people who are publicly…
