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Texas Rangers Investigate Apparent Suicide in Rockdale, Texas Jail

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The Texas Rangers are investigating the death Renee Serna.  Ms. Serna was found unconscious in her jail cell in Rockdale, Texas.  It appears that Ms. Serna may have committed suicide.  The Rockdale Police Department is required to file a custodial death report with the Texas State Attorney General within 30 days after Ms. Serna’s death.  Once it does so, more details might be available.

Unfortunately, suicide continues to be a leading cause of death among Texas inmates. If jailers are aware of a person’s self-harm tendencies and ignore those tendencies, the jailers can be liable for violations of the United States Constitution.  We make no allegation of any wrongdoing in this post, but we are instead simply providing information.

Written By: author avatar Dean Malone
author avatar 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.
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