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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…
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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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On March 1, 2018, the Freestone County Jail in Fairfield, Texas, was cited for three alleged jail standard violations in a report released by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards…
Read More The Corpus Christi Police Department, for at least the second time in March 2018, filed a custodial death report with the Attorney General of Texas. We make no allegations in…
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Sheriff Javier Salazar of the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) in San Antonio, Texas, announced on April 11, 2018, that two deputies with his office have been indicted for allegedly…
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The Corpus Christi Police Department filed a custodial death report with the Texas State Attorney General, in March 2018, regarding the death of Derrick James Miller. Mr. Miller was 38…
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In June 2015, a woman alleges that she was the victim of forcible rape and sexual battery at the hands of a jailer with Muskogee County Jail in Muskogee, Oklahoma.…
Read More On October 7, 2017, an off-duty police officer with the Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department encountered 28-year-old James Hartsfield. She said that he appeared to be driving while drinking an…
Read More Unfortunately, the Wake County Detention prisoner who attempted to commit suicide this week has passed away. April Elaine Peed Cumbo, 42 years of age, passed away on Tuesday. Ms. Cumbo…
Read More April Elaine Peed Cumbo apparently attempted to commit suicide by hanging on April 9, 2018 in the Wake County Detention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of this post, it…
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On Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, a police officer with the Okmulgee Police Department allegedly shot and killed a man wielding a knife. According to the Oklahoma State…
Read More The Dallas Police Department filed a custodial death report with the Attorney General of Texas regarding the death of John O. Newton. Information in this post was obtained from that…
Read More At Jefferson County Jail in Madras, Oregon, 59-year-old prisoner James Eugene Wippel died on April 26, 2017, of what was referred to at the time as a “serious medical issue”.…
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Graphic dashcam videos released in the first week of April 2018 and posted on the Internet show two officers with the New Jersey State Police searching a man’s genitals and…
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Zachary Keen Brown, age 19, was arrested on March 21, 2018, in Perryton, Texas, and had a seizure a couple of hours later. Jail personnel at Ochiltree County Jail sent…
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On Saturday, March 31, 2018, in Travis County Jail, Austin, Texas, two prisoners were discovered dead in separate incidents authorities say are unrelated. The prisoners, both Austin residents, were 24-year-old…
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A resident of Milam County and former prisoner in Milam County Jail in Cameron, Texas, John L. Robertson, filed a federal lawsuit against several Milam County officials and jail employees…
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