Dallas County officials say they are now keeping a closer watch over jailers after an inmate died and the jail failed a state inspection this fall.

The state had declared the jail to be in noncompliance after a Texas Commission on Jail Standards inspector reviewed video that showed Dallas County jail staff had not observed an inmate face to face every 30 minutes as required by law. The video disproved jail logs that said those checks had occurred.

The state agency launched its inquiry after 61-year-old Ricky Ray Alvis died in custody on Sept. 29. Alvis was found unresponsive in his cell and was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a custodial death report.

The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office ruled that Alvis died of natural causes linked to cardiovascular disease.

Following the special inspection in October, Dallas County was added to a state list of noncompliant jails. But officials with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Commission on Jail Standards said Monday that the county is now back in compliance.

State law requires that jailers observe certain areas every 30 minutes. Those areas include inmates who are believed to be violent, mentally ill, potentially suicidal or exhibiting “bizarre behavior.”

Now, Dallas County jail supervisors are performing random checks of surveillance footage daily to confirm that jailers are making their rounds as logged, said sheriff’s office spokesman Raul Reyna.

“That’s what the jail commission does, too,” Reyna said. “They ask for random times, and when they did the reinspection, that’s basically what they asked for.”

Brandon Wood, executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, said counties that are found to be in violation of state rules are given 30 days to submit a corrective plan.

Dallas County filed its plan within the deadline, he said. And the state last week reinspected the jail to see whether the county had fixed the issues. Reyna said state officials “reinspected several dates of video and found we were doing what we were supposed to.”

But it’s unclear what has been done about the incorrect logs. Reyna said he doesn’t know whether an internal investigation is ongoing.

“Anybody that was caught falsifying any documentation was sent to internal affairs for investigation, and I don’t have the results of who, what or how many people,” he said.

Dallas County objected to the release of some information regarding Alvis’ death that the Texas Commission on Jail Standards had agreed to disclose in response to an open-records request. The information has been sent to the Texas attorney general’s office for an opinion.

More than 4,600 inmates are currently housed at the Dallas County jail. The facility had passed its last annual inspection before state officials found it to be noncompliant in October, Wood said.