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The Harris County Jail in Houston put in a request to use 192 temporary beds and in the first week of May 2018, it was approved by the Texas Commission…
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The Potter County Sheriff’s Department filed a custodial death report with the Attorney General of Texas regarding the death of Daniel Luis Martinez. Information in this post was obtained from…
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On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 22-year-old Daniel Martinez died from suicide caused by self-asphyxia, according to an autopsy performed at the request of Potter County Justice of the Peace. Martinez…
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On October 17, 2016, 26-year-old Micah Jester was allegedly shot and killed by officers with the Austin Police Department (APD). The alleged shooting was controversial and has been under investigation.…
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On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in League City, Texas, 49-year-old Roger Fortner was allegedly shot and killed in his residence on Morningside Drive by a police officer with the League…
Read More A federal judge in Houston discarded Harris County’s arguments regarding a police shooting that occurred in November 2015. In Ray Chatham v. Harris County, the parents of a man shot and…
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Twenty-two-year-old Daniel Martinez died in the Potter County Detention Center in Amarillo, Texas, at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2018. An autopsy is scheduled for May 3, according to…
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47-year-old Jeff Colburn Dies a Day After being Booked into McLennan County Jail in Waco, Texas, on Monday, April 30, 2018, 47-year-old Jeff Colburn was transported from McLennan County jail…
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On Monday, April 30, 2018, in Texarkana, Arkansas, 60-year-old Welton Watson was sent from Miller County Detention Center to Wadley Regional Medical Center because of medical issues. On the same…
Read More A United States district judge in the Fort Worth Division of the Northern District of Texas recently granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment against relatives of a man shot and…
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In separate events on Saturday, April 28, 2018, at Bexar County jail in San Antonio, Texas, two prisoners attempted suicide. In both cases, deputies with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office…
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Texas county jails have a high rate of prisoner suicide. It is a problem many states are currently facing, and it is linked to mental illness. San Diego County in…
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Matthew Stephenson, a prisoner at Marion County Jail in Yellville, Arkansas, became acutely ill at about 7:44 p.m. on April 21, 2018, according to Marion County Sheriff Clinton Evans. A…
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Three murder suspects escaped Bexar county jail in San Antonio, Texas, on March 2, 2018. They were caught and returned to jail within about an hour. An ex-girlfriend of one…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) did an inspection at Harrison County Jail in Marshall, Texas, and released the results in February 2018. The jail was cited for two…
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On April 26, 2017, two days after being arrested and booked into Jefferson County Jail in Madras, Oregon, 59-year-old James Wippel went to the jail nurse. Jail officials called for…
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[yframe url=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWcJIyCoit4&feature=youtu.be’] Recently released body camera video footage of the alleged fatal police shooting of 20-year-old Elijah James Smith in West Valley City, Utah, is stirring continued controversy over his…
Read More Louis Jones, 49 years of age at the time, died in the custody of the Corpus Christi City Marshall at approximately on April 16, 2018. Information in this post was…
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A 63-year-old prisoner, Richard Paul Holt, at Oklahoma County Jail in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died early Sunday, April 15, hours after being transferred to St. Anthony Hospital for treatment. According…
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Twenty-three-year-old Marcus Soza was found unresponsive in his jail cell at Jim Wells County Jail in Alice, Texas, on January 31, 2018. He was transported to a hospital, where he…
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