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Houston Landing : Nearly 200 people with mental illnesses died in Texas jails. The death toll is getting worse.
The Houston Landing examined thousands of public records to determine how many people who died from homicides, suicides and other unnatural causes in the custody of county and municipal jails across the greater Houston area over the last decade had previously exhibited mental health symptoms that were documented by court, jail or law enforcement personnel. Read More
Time Mag: How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration and Rebuild Public Safety
I proposed the creation of a new federal Department of Community Safety and Repair to build a national community health and justice worker corps to end mass incarceration, build integrated public health and safety systems, and shrink reliance on notoriously reactive and ineffective U.S. policing and for-profit healthcare industries. - Eric Reinhart Read More
Houston Chronicle: Harris County inmate dies of ‘medical emergency,’ sheriff says, marking sixth jail death this year
An inmate died Tuesday morning at Harris County Jail after experiencing an "apparent medical emergency," the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said. Read More
Two Decades of Prison Did Not Prepare Me for the Horrors of County Jail
An inmate died Tuesday morning at Harris County Jail after experiencing an "apparent medical emergency," the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said. Read More
Mother’s Day Fundraiser – Help Texas Jail Project Support Moms
Ruth Wilson Gilmore says, “The primacy of class is thoroughly gendered: women who work to support their families and to free their loved ones encounter one another as laborers with similar triple workdays – job, home, justice.” Texas Jail Project encounters and interacts with many such women in that so-called third job: justice. Read More
Teen Vogue: Giving Birth in Jail Often Comes With Medical Neglect, Texas Jail Project Finds
After 28 men and women died in custody while awaiting trial last year, local officials are throwing money at the overcrowded facility. Advocates for inmates say bigger reforms are needed. Read More
Texas Monthly : “It Smells of Despair”: What’s Going On Inside the Harris County Jail?
After 28 men and women died in custody while awaiting trial last year, local officials are throwing money at the overcrowded facility. Advocates for inmates say bigger reforms are needed. Read More
Houston Chronicle: Harris County Jail fails another inspection as investigations continue + Full TCJS Report
Inspectors from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards found during a mid-February walk-through that jail staff are falling short in multiple key areas: failure to follow medical orders and failure to treat detainees with medical issues in a timely manner, where the jail has repeatedly failed before, again made inspectors' list of deficiencies. Read More