#texas jails

[porterdavis]

80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime

The "devastating human toll" of Covid-19 in Texas’s correctional facilities is revealed in a new report by University of Texas at Austin researchers.

The news out of Texas jails just keeps getting worse.

Over 230 people have died from Covid-19 in Texas’s correctional facilities — and in county jails, nearly 80 percent of them were in pretrial detention and hadn’t even been convicted of a crime