Susan Dee Reddick Dies in Travis County, Texas Jail

The Travis County Sheriff’s Department filed a custodial death report regarding the death of Susan Dee Reddick. Ms. Reddick was only 45 years old at the time of her death. We provide in this post information obtained from that report.

The report contains a summary portion which we are omitting from this post due to the sensitive nature of what was contained in it. Ms. Reddick was found with an apparent medical condition and allegedly evaluated. Once put into a wheelchair, she became unresponsive. Ms. Reddick passed away in a local hospital approximately ten days later – on February 26, 2021.

Texas prisoners are entitled to receive reasonable medical care, and to be protected from themselves and others. We do not have enough information regarding Ms. Reddick’s situation to determine whether there may have been any constitutional violations. However, if jailers violate a person’s constitutional rights, and a person dies as a result, the jailer, and possibly the county or city for whom the jailer works, may be liable to certain surviving family members for claims usually brought in federal court in Texas.

Written By: Dean Malone

Dean Malone

Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.