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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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Northeast of Longview, Texas, in Harrison County, deputies with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call for a welfare check on Curtis Black Road on Saturday, January 20,…
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A settlement has finally been reached regarding the alleged police shooting of Leon Ford Jr., a young black man, on November 11, 2012, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A Caucasian police officer…
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On November 6, 2015, Jeremy King was arrested for jaywalking in Austin, Texas. He has alleged since that time that excessive force was used against him, and he filed a…
Read More Two prisoners at the Montgomery County Jail in Conroe, Texas, died in the last month, and influenza may have been a contributing cause in both custodial deaths. The two prisoners…
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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…
Read More 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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