TJP Testifies at May 2nd TCJS Meeting

In May, we again took over the quarterly meeting of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards with eighteen community members and allies from seven different counties.

Our executive director Krish joined grieving mother Sarah Knight from Harris county to demand that the Commission count out of state custody deaths of people being shipped out from overcrowded county jails to Louisiana and Mississippi.

Reverend Jacilet Griffin Lee, another grieving mother from Harris county who has been attending these meetings for almost two years, demanded accountability on behalf of all the families whose loved ones have been killed in Harris county jail.

We are humbled by the manner in which all the grieving families supported one another at these meetings despite never having met before.

Watching the power shift in a room full of sheriffs, jailers, policy makers and regulators, was a deeply moving experience. We are determined to sustain this practice as an essential tool for political education and movement building.

We compiled some of the testimonies from this meeting on our YouTube Channel here.