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In Bedford, Texas, on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, a suspect was allegedly fatally shot by a police officer. According to the Bedford Police Department, the suspect, who has not yet…
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On August 1, 2016, 26-year-old Manuel Delacruz died in a Port Arthur, Texas, hospital during a scuffle with police officers. Delacruz was diagnosed as schizophrenic. In the days leading up…
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Cindy Lou Yonker recently passed away while in the custody of the Llano County Sheriff’s Department. Information in this post was obtained from a custodial death report filed by the…
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Fifty-one-year-old Robert Johnson died at Kemper-Neshoba Correctional Facility in De Kalb, Mississippi, on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. He was discovered dead inside an observation room. According to Kemper County Sheriff…
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In 2013, a deputy with the Palm Beach County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office allegedly shot Dontrell Stephens after instructing him to dismount from his bicycle. Stephens was paralyzed from the waist…
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At the age of 40, Tommy Joe Smith was allegedly murdered at the Tangipahoa Parish jail in Amite, Louisiana, on January 31, 2017, by 12 prisoners, who attacked him. An…
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A former Texas police officer charged with the March 2016 shooting death of 16-year-old Jose Cruz in Addison, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas, was sentenced by a jury to…
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On December 27, 2017, the family of Jaquan Williams filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Somerset County Jail and others. Williams died on January 11, 2017, while detained in…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) routinely conducts inspections of local jail facilities to ensure that they are safe, secure, and suitable. Last year Cass County Jail was inspected,…
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An alleged officer-involved shooting that occurred on December 27, 2017, in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, is under investigation. A preliminary investigation suggests that a Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy stopped to…
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Fifty-six-year-old Cindy Lou Yonker of Llano, Texas, was arrested and booked into Llano County Jail the night of December 24, 2017. The next day, in the booking area of the…
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At Bell County Central Jail in Belton, Texas, prisoner Eli Gauna Jr., age 23, attempted to commit suicide on January 1, 2018. Bell County Correctional Officers were advised that…
Read More Rad Douglas Harrison, 46 years of age at the time, passed away on December 18, 2017. Information in this post was obtained from a custodial death report filed by the…
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A custodial death report filed with the Attorney General of Texas by the Nueces County Sheriff’s Department indicates that Gabriel Trevino, 32 years of age at the time, passed away…
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) conducted a jail inspection of Goliad County Jail in Goliad, Texas, this year and released a Jail Inspection Report on November 17, 2017. The…
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Behind Tom Green County Jail northeast of San Angelo, Texas, located at 3262 U.S. 277 N., is a construction project for a new jail facility. Originally, the old and new…
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In 2012, when he was 16 years old, Tyler Haire was arrested and placed in a jail in Mississippi. Haire had a history of significant mental health issues prior to…
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At approximately 5 a.m. on December 24, 2017, Thasha Prindle was discovered unresponsive in her cell at the Latimer County Detention Center in Wilburton, Oklahoma. She was declared dead minutes…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) conducted a special inspection of Jefferson County Jail in Beaumont, Texas, and released a Special Inspection Report on October 17, 2017. The report…
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On December 24, 2017, at about 9:24 p.m., the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office in Texas was asked by the Progreso Police Department to respond to a home in Progreso. When…
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