TDCJ to resume bus transportation after inmate escaped custody before killing family of 5
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) will resume inmate transportation starting Monday, June 13 after temporarily stopping it to investigate how a convicted murderer escaped from a bus last month and allegedly killed a man and his four grandsons.
Details remain scant in Cameron County inmate’s death
Little remains known about the Cameron County inmate who died after being found unresponsive while in county custody Wednesday. The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release earlier this week that Lidia Grover, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:27 a.m. at a local hospital. That morning, Cameron County Sheriff Eric Garza said on Twitter that the inmate was found unresponsive at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito and that EMS were en route to transport, further noting that an investigation was ongoing. Grover was transported by Brownsville EMS from the detention center to Valley Regional Center in Brownsville, where she was pronounced dead. The sheriff’s office said in the release that the Texas Rangers are investigating Grover’s death and that the sheriff’s criminal investigation division was assisting.
myrgv.comNewly released body cam footage shows Louisiana trooper violently arresting a Black motorist
Body camera footage first obtained by the Associated Press shows a White police officer violently arresting a Black man following a traffic stop in 2019. The Louisiana State Police are now being investigated for a potential pattern of coverups.
news.yahoo.comFormer Georgia Supervisory Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Offenses for Assaulting Inmates
A former supervisory correctional officer at the Valdosta State Prison (VSP) in Valdosta, Georgia, pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of two inmates during two separate incidents. According to court documents and admissions made during the hearing, on Sept. 24, 2018, Patrick Sharpe, 30, while on duty as a correctional officer at VSP, assaulted a handcuffed inmate in retaliation for an earlier interaction between the inmate and a female officer. As a result of the assault, the inmate briefly lost consciousness and suffered lacerations to his face and head. In the second incident, on Dec. 29, 2018, Sharpe, while on duty as a supervisory correctional officer at VSP, instructed his subordinate officers to assault a handcuffed inmate in retaliation for an earlier altercation between that inmate and a different female officer. “The defendants committed two retaliatory, injurious, and unjustified assaults while acting as a corrections officer,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
justice.govHarris County Jail inmate dies after being found 'unresponsive’ in his cell, officials say
HOUSTON – An inmate at the Harris County Jail was found unresponsive in his cell over the weekend, officials said. Court records show the robbery charge was dismissed and then refiled as the burglary charge. The burglary charge was dismissed following Jacobs’ death. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has asked the Texas Rangers to investigate Jacobs’ death. The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet determined a cause of death.