Matagorda County Jail Texas Inmate Dies 5 Hours After Booking
Markist Levar Sims was booked into Matagorda County Jail in Bay City, Texas, at 10:05 PM on August 5, 2022. Jailers housed 45-year-old Mr. Sims in a detoxification cell. At…
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Markist Levar Sims Dies After Being in Matagorda County, Texas Jail
The Matagorda County Sheriff’s Department, in Bay City, Texas, filed a report regarding the custodial death of Markist Levar Sims. Mr. Sims was 45 years old at the time of…
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Medical Issues & Suicide Cause Many Recent Local Jail Deaths-Pt.19
Methods of Suicide in U.S. Jails A recent study on suicides in U.S. jails analyzed methods of suicide. Hanging was the method of custodial suicide 92.7% of the time. The…
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A 23-Year-Old Tarrant County Jail Inmate Dies on 7/20/22
On August 4, 2022, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department reported the death of Trelynn Dmaun Wormley to the Texas Office of the Attorney General. The 23-year-old was booked into Tarrant…
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Trelynn Dmaun Wormley Dies After Incarceration in Tarrant County Jail
The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, in Fort Worth, Texas, filed yet another custodial death report regarding the death of one of its inmates. The Tarrant County jail has of late…
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Municipal and County Jail Inmate Suicide In another recent headline, a 56-year-old man in a North Carolina county jail was discovered dead in his cell on Friday, August 5, 2022.…
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Jail Deaths Resulting from Inmate Fights Continued A Harris County Jail Inmate Dies After a Fight with a Fellow Inmate Two Harris County jail inmates were involved in a physical…
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Jail Deaths Resulting from Inmate Fights A Florida County Jail Fight Results in a Custodial Death A Florida county jail inmate died on March 19, 2022. The 31-year-old was injured…
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Two County Jail Inmates Recently Died in California Continued Nine days before the death of the aforementioned 33-year-old county jail detainee in California, a 38-year-old county jail inmate in California…
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Trinity County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Trinity County Jail, in Groveton, Texas, failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) occurring in 2022. As a result, on July 20, 2022, the TCJS…
Read More Hardin County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Hardin County Jail, in Kountze, Texas, failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) occurring on or about July 12th, 2022. The Hardin County, Texas jail…
Read More Nueces County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Nueces County Jail, in Corpus Christi, Texas, failed an inspection occurring in or about June 2022. On July 29, 2022, the TCJS issued a notice of non-compliance. The TCJS…
Read More Tyler County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Tyler County Jail, in Woodville, Texas, failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) occurring on or about July 13, 2022. Therefore, the Tyler County, Texas…
Read More Shelby County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Shelby County Jail, in Center, Texas, recently failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). The TCJS inspection occurred on or about July 12, 2022. The…
Read More Medina County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Medina County Jail, in Hondo, Texas, failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) in or about July 2022. As a result, the TCJS sent a…
Read More Leon County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Leon County Jail, in Centerville, Texas, recently failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). As a result, on July 20, 2022, the TCJS sent a…
Read More Edwards County, Texas Jail Fails State Inspection
The Edwards County Jail, in Rocksprings, Texas, recently failed an inspection by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS). The Edwards County Jail is now listed as being non-compliant by…
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A 26-Year-Old Arizona County Jail Inmate Dies on 7/28/22 A 26-year-old inmate at an Arizona county jail died in the jail’s custody on Thursday, July 28, 2022. At approximately 2:26…
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Two July 31, 2022, County Jail Deaths Outside Texas A 54-year-old inmate in an Ohio county jail died on Sunday, July 31, 2022. He had been in the jail for…
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Bexar County Jail Allegedly Fails to Provide Suicide Prevention Training to Jailers A Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) inspector also found that Bexar County was non-compliant with Rule §273.5(a)(1)–…
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