Details on Custodial Deaths in Washington County, Texas
Records suggest that six custodial deaths occurred in the six years ending 2019 in association with the Washington County Sheriff and/or the Washington County Jail located at 1206 Old Independence Rd in Brenham, Texas. Few details are known about the causes of death, with several exceptions, described below.
- The death of 31-year-old Cameron James Pritchett on March 6, 2019, at Washington County Jail was a suicide.
- The custodial death of 19-year-old Madeleine Gene Richardson in July 2013 was reported as a likely drug overdose. The inmate admitted to jailers upon her arrival at Washington County Jail that she had swallowed a large quantity of meth.
- Thirty-three-year-old Charla Glene Mikeska was arrested and jailed at Washington County Jail in 2017, and she was quickly taken to a nearby hospital for abdominal pain. She was returned to the jail and then later taken to a hospital again and released from custody. It is common for jails to release prisoners in order to save on the cost of health care and seemingly to be in a position to claim that it was not a custodial death. The woman died 11 days after being booked into the jail.
- En route to Washington County Jail in July 2016, 48-year-old Alvin Lamar Ray of Brenham complained that he was feeling ill. Washington County EMS was contacted, and they said the suspect was experiencing a heart attack. The suspect had run from the police before his arrest. Ray was transported to a nearby hospital and died in the emergency room.
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