Brazoria County, Texas (Angleton) Jail Inmate Dies in Custody

Inmate Mark Daniel Ware passed away while in the custody of the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Department on or about October 5, 2017.  Information obtained in this post was obtained from a custodial death report filed by the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office with the Attorney General of Texas.

Mr. Ware was allegedly arrested on or about September 20, 2017 and booked into the Brazoria County Detention Center.  He was then transported to a medical facility for testing approximately nine days later – on September 29, 2017.  He was allegedly cleared for incarceration on that date and re-incarcerated in the Brazoria County Detention Center in Angleton.  He was allegedly examined by additional medical personnel at the jail at that time.  He was housed in a single-person cell and was found to be non-responsive on or about October 5, 2017.  Mr. Ware passed away on that date.  As of the filing of the custodial death report, autopsy results were pending.  The report did indicate that Mr. Ware had mental health problems.

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.