KERA News: Town hall in Arlington to bring Tarrant County sheriff, activists to discuss jail conditions, deaths
January 20, 2024
According to KERA News, jail conditions in Tarrant County are being questioning as of January 2024 after at least 60 people have died since Sheriff Waybourn took his position in…
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Tarrant County
According to KERA News, jail conditions in Tarrant County are being questioning as of January 2024 after at least 60 people have died since Sheriff Waybourn took his position in 2017.
“We’re going to give people an opportunity to hear about those things, [and] ask questions about those areas of the county jail that concern them,” Simmons said.
The sheriff’s main job is operating county jails. These deaths and other incidents, like the beating of an incarcerated man and the death of a baby born unattended in a cell, have sparked multiple lawsuits, which have cost the county more than $1 million in settlements. Two jailers accused of falsifying checks on an incarcerated man who later died face criminal prosecution.
TJP’s executive director Krish Gundu has been invited to participate as a panelist in the town hall.
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