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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) is the entity that conducts county jail inspections and implements declared state policies that all county jail facilities must conform to in order…
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The size of the Idaho prison population has grown to the point that they have an ongoing bed shortage in the state’s jails and prisons. Soon, up to 250 male…
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Mark Rene Flores was shot to death by a Harris County Sheriff’s deputy on January 29, 2018. Information in this post was obtained from a custodial death report filed by…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) sent a memorandum to all sheriffs and jail administrators in Texas regarding investigation requirements for custodial deaths, as required by SB 1849. As…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) sent a January 23, 2018, memorandum to all sheriffs and jail administrators in Texas to clarify proper mental health referral procedures for prisoners.…
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On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, Marcus Soza, age 23, was booked into Jim Wells County Jail in Alice, Texas. Late the next day, he was discovered unresponsive in his holding…
Read More On October 19, 2017, there was an alleged officer-involved shooting in Corpus Christi, Texas, in Hillcrest Neighborhood. A police officer with the Corpus Christi Police Department allegedly fired a single…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) released a Jail Inspection Report for Willacy County Jail in Raymondville, Texas, on January 22, 2018. The jail was cited for two alleged…
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The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) compiled a report indicating that in 2016, 45% of all prisoner complaints were related to medical services. Prisoners have a right to needed…
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On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, a tragic homicide occurred in Houston, Texas, as a kidnap victim was shot and killed by a SWAT team member with the Federal Bureau of…
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In the second alleged fatal police shooting in San Antonio, Texas, within four days, 43-year-old Kirsten Kloppe was allegedly shot and killed by a police officer with the San Antonio…
Read More The Ochiltree County Sheriff’s Department filed with the Attorney General of Texas a custodial death report regarding the death of Tommy Lynn Hernandez. Information in this post was obtained from…
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On Thursday night, January 25, 2018, after an alleged bicycle theft in San Antonio, Texas, one police officer was injured and a man in his 20s was allegedly shot and…
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On Wednesday, January 24, 2018, a jury in the U.S. District Court of Western Arkansas handed down a verdict favoring a Fort Smith Police Department officer, who had been sued…
Read More Baltimore County Police Department (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In May 2015 during Baltimore, Maryland, riots over the death of Freddie Gray, 26-year-old Larry Lomax dared officers with the Baltimore Police Department…
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On January 17, 2018, 16-year-old Joseph Haynes was allegedly shot and killed by a deputy in a Columbus, Ohio, courtroom. There has already been a great deal of controversy over…
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Hours after being arrested and booked in Cleveland County Jail in Norman, Oklahoma, on January 16, 2018, 34-year-old Marconia Kessee, an African American, was found unresponsive in a cell and…
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On December 14, 2016, 41-year-old Sharon Lavette Alexander of Little Rock, Arkansas, died within about a day of incarceration at Pulaski County Jail in Little Rock. She had been booked…
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A former Brown County Jail prisoner has filed a federal lawsuit against six Brown County employees, including five employees at the county jail, which is located in Brownwood, Texas. He…
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Early today, January 22, 2018, a man was killed in Irving, Texas, in an alleged police shooting. The shooting victim has not yet been identified. According to the Irving Police…
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