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Texas Jail Officials Disciplined, Indicted for Leaving Prisoner in Squalor
Loaded on Jan. 3, 2018
by Matthew Clarke
by Matt Clarke
On October 10, 2013, a Texas jail compliance team discovered mentally ill Harris County jail prisoner Terry Goodwin, 54, in a cell "amid heaps of trash, swarms of bugs, and piles of his own feces." Goodwin had apparently been locked in the cell for at …
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