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Texas County Jail, Beset by Prisoner Deaths, has Highest Suicide Rate

Loaded on Feb. 29, 2016 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News March, 2016, page 32
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Staffing, Jail Specific, Failure to Train/Supervise, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides. Location: Texas.

A wrongful death suit filed by the parents of a 30-year-old Bexar County, Texas jail prisoner who died of a methadone overdose while in solitary confinement at the lock-up settled in February 2015 for $200,000, and a guard responsible for conducting cell checks at the time of the prisoner’s …

 

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