TJP press conference on bail reform
April 1, 2025
On Tuesday, The Bail Coalition held a press conference outside of the state legislature in Austin. Community member, Darren Yancy, spoke before the press about his brother's death in jail,…
Topics: 2025news, Cash Bail, Custody Death, Medical, Pretrial Policy, Texas Legislature
On Tuesday, The Bail Coalition held a press conference outside of the state legislature in Austin. Community member, Darren Yancy, spoke before the press about his brother’s death in jail, saying,
When you have people that are dying in jail, trying to get before a judge, why the hell… would you want them to stay longer and increase their probability of death…The bills we’ll be hearing about today are based on the predication that we have a functioning jail system. We don’t.
We are seeing the effects of our narrative shift work through the way the news coverage centers the victims of bail laws: people held pre-trial for years and then found innocent and people who died in custody before they got a trial. Read coverage of the press conference from KXAN, KERA News, and CBS Austin.
Full Article at KXAN