Allen Robinson Dies After Liberty County, Texas Jail Incarceration

Allen Robinson died on November 26, 2022 after being in the Liberty County, Texas jail. Mr. Robinson was 43 years old at the time of his death.

A news media outlet reported that a detainee in the Liberty County jail was found unresponsive at about 4:30 p.m. on November 26, 2022, in a single-person cell. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office allegedly said that medics arrived soon thereafter and transported the detainee to a local hospital. Moreover, the news outlet reported that the detainee had previously reported a medical condition to the jail’s staff. Finally, the news report indicates that the Texas Rangers and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office will conduct an investigation.

All that aside, what is particularly troubling is that the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office has not reported that custodial death to the Texas Attorney General as required by law. It appears, based upon our investigation, that the detainee was Allen Robinson. Texas law requires a sheriff’s department to report to the Texas Attorney General, no later than 30 days after death, all custodial deaths. There is a specified form for reporting the death.

It is vitally important that our state agencies report custodial deaths, so that the public, and more importantly the family of the decedent, have some sense of what led to the death. Hopefully, the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office will quickly attempt to remedy its failure to comply with legal obligations and file a custodial death report with the Attorney General regarding Allen Robinson’s death.

Written By: Dean Malone

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.