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Young Man Dies by Suicide in Smith County Jail – Federal Lawsuit Filed For Immediate Release Tyler, Texas – October 9, 2024 Nathan Johns was arrested at the psychiatric unit…
Read More Federal Magistrate Judge Decides Medina County’s Motion to Dismiss Jail Death Case For Immediate Release San Antonio, Texas – 10/09/2024 — 59-year-old David Tumey was arrested and incarcerated in the…
Read More Federal Court Denies Potter County’s Request to Dismiss Jail Death Lawsuit For Immediate Release Amarillo, Texas – 8/13/2024 26-year-old Larry Douglas, Jr. was incarcerated in the Potter County jail in…
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Forty-nine-year-old Michael Tron Watson was booked into Freestone County Jail in Fairfield, Texas, on June 29, 2024. Mr. Watson was placed in a multiple occupancy cell. He died of unknown…
Read More Tarrant County Agrees to $750,000 Judgment Against it in Federal Lawsuit Regarding Jail Death of Mentally Ill Woman For Immediate Release Fort Worth, Texas – 09/27/2024 52-year-old Georgia Baldwin was…
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Crosby County Jail in Crosbyton, Texas, has recently been added to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) website due to noncompliance. A special jail inspection on September 5, 2024,…
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Thirty-one-year-old Andrea Nicole Garcia was booked into Bexar County Jail at 4:45 AM on September 21, 2024. She died there in a multiple-occupancy temporary holding cell 23 hours later. A…
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43-Year-Old Man Dies as a Result of Untreated Head Injury Occurring in Rockwall County Jail – Federal Lawsuit Filed For Immediate Release Dallas, Texas – September 20, 2024 Michael Galvan…
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About two weeks after his 50th birthday, Paul Anthony Sarabia was booked into Bexar County Jail in San Antonio, Texas, on September 1, 2024. Tragically, he had a medical emergency…
Read More Federal Court Refuses to Dismiss Case Against Kleberg County for Jail Death of 32-Year-Old Woman For Immediate Release Corpus Christi, Texas – 9/18/2024 32-year-old Cynthia Garcia had significant mental health…
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Freezing conditions in jails is not uncommon, and many suffer from cold-weather injuries such as frostbite, trench foot or chillblain.
Read More Cato Institute Files Brief Supporting Appeal of Order Disclosing Sealed Mental Health Records For Immediate Release Marshall, Texas – 09/13/2024 — 41-year-old Lonnetta Johnson had significant mental health issues. Her…
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Thirty-three-year-old Josiah Devon Johnson went through Potter County Jail intake on September 5, 2024. He died 15 hours later in the jail’s medical housing unit. Under the direction of Sheriff…
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Enrique Hernandez was booked into Midland County Jail on May 25, 2024. Mr. Hernandez died in the jail’s custody on August 29, 2024, at 22 years of age. A custodial…
Read More 24-Year-Old Man Dies After Not Being Given Medication in Smith County Jail – Federal Lawsuit Filed For Immediate Release Tyler, Texas – September 9, 2024 D’Vonte Valentine was arrested by…
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After an inspection of Cherokee County Jail on August 19, 2024, a notice of non-compliance was sent to the jail on August 23 citing it for violating one minimum jail…
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Burleson County Jail in Caldwell, Texas, was recently added to the list of non-compliant jails on the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) website. A day after an August 26,…
Read More Heat is negatively affecting many people while in jail. A lack of access to water or cooling areas can mean inmates are at risk of illness, injury or death.
Read More Fifty-one-year-old Jose Guadalupe Galarza went through Dallas County Jail intake on March 21, 2024. Mr. Galarza died in the jail’s custody on August 13, 2024. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department…
Read More Jose Manuel Viquez was booked into Dallas County Jail on July 10, 2024. Mr. Viquez died in the jail on July 19, 2024, at age 46. A custodial death report…
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