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Adan Ricardo Torres Dies After Being in Travis County, Texas Jail

Inside The Old Idaho State Penitentiary

On November 14, 2021, at approximately 0055 hrs. Travis County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Complex inmate: Adan Ricardo Torres was discovered hanging in his cell during an officer post visual check. Torres was cut down, resuscitated, and transported to the South Austin Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased on November 19, 2021. The report further indicates that Mr. Torres did not make any suicidal statements. However, he did exhibit mental health problems, according to the report.

Texas jails must protect inmates from their own suicidal tendencies. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that right. If a jail fails to protect an inmate, and does so in a deliberately indifferent and/or objectively unreasonable manner, then liability may exist in a lawsuit to be brought by surviving family members.

Written By: author avatar Dean Malone
author avatar Dean Malone
Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.
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