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32-year-old Lee Roy Tapia died on October 12, 2017 after being in the custody of the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office. The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office filed a custodial death report…
Read More A custodial death report filed with the Texas State Attorney General by the Corpus Christi Police Department details the unfortunate death of Dewboy Lister, apparently 55 years of age at…
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On Wednesday, November 15, 2017, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, police with the Oklahoma City Police Department were called to a scene where a man was said to be suicidal. At…
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In Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs, Texas, 60-year-old Melvin Williams was discovered unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday morning, November 14, 2017. A jailer was delivering breakfast when Williams…
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Thirty-one-year-old Lyndo Jones was allegedly shot twice by an officer with the Mesquite Police Department in Mesquite, Texas, on November 8, 2017. Police had responded to the 1300 block of…
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Forty-one-year-old Amie Coon of Ivanhoe, Texas died late Sunday night, November 12, 2017, while a prisoner in the Tyler County Jail in Woodville, Texas. According to a press release from…
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Two jailers from the El Paso County Jail in El Paso, Texas, have been arrested in connection with the custodial death of prisoner Roberto Gallegos. The 58-year-old man died while…
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The prisoner who attempted suicide in Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, on November 8, 2017, has been identified as 44-year-old Quincy Butler of New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was…
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While serving 52 days of solitary confinement, 35-year-old Janene Wallace committed suicide in Delaware County Prison in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, on May 26, 2015. In November 2017 news, the for-profit,…
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On Wednesday, November 8, 2017, Smith County Sheriff Larry R. Smith announced that at Smith County Jail in Tyler, Texas, a prisoner was discovered hanging inside a side cell at…
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In November 2017 news, a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, sentenced a 39-year-old man from Arkansas to one year in jail. He was found guilty of molesting a female…
Read More Heather Denean Bubrig of New Orleans, Louisiana, was allegedly fatally shot by a reserve deputy with Dona Ana County in New Mexico on Tuesday, October 31, 2017. According to authorities,…
Read More 26-year-old Joshua Lopez passed away in the El Paso County, Texas jail on or about June 4, 2017. Information provided in this post was obtained from a custodial death report…
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Michael Marshall was 50 years old when he died after deputies restrained him at a downtown Denver, Colorado, jail in 2015. In news released November 1, 2017, it was announced…
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Pecos County Jail in Fort Stockton, Texas, was inspected by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards earlier this year. On October 17, 2017, a Jail Inspection Report was released, and…
Read More Bexar County Deputy Manuel Medelin of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday, October 30, 2017, that a four-person mental health unit has been formed. It is the first…
Read More On October 23, 2017, three police officers with the Poloma, California, Police Department were charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the alleged beating of an unarmed teenager in September…
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Without providing a detailed explanation, Oklahoma County commissioners unanimously voted on October 2, 2017 to deny an inspection request made by the U.S. Justice Department. The potential for a costly…
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In Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Trina Brown called the police on October 26, 2016, when she saw that her then-boyfriend was headed toward her house. He had allegedly beaten her earlier in…
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