Shockingly another inmate in a Texas jail cell is found dead. According to Michaels Barajas article “Inmate Found Dead In Bexar County Jail”, a 50-year-old inmate was found dead in his cell. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office statement indicated that the inmate may have committed suicide. Seems like suicide is the answer to everything. That’s what they said about Sandra Bland, but later they granted her family a million dollars, because of wrongful death.
This article is interesting because towards the end the author states, “If Sunday's death at the jail is ultimately ruled a suicide, the man would be at least the fifth person to take his own life inside the Bexar County lockup this year.” In another article by Michael Barajas, he states that there have been four suicides in just four weeks. I’m no detective but something is going on in Bexar County. But, according to the Texas Commission on Jail standards, there were no issues. As they conducted a surprise inspection on the jail.
So, the question is, what is causing so many suicidal cases in that specific jail? I don’t think there’s a coincidence of four “suicides” in under a month. Something is going on in that jail, that needs to be investigated.
Check out this blog post from Jose Vera about the recent strange alleged suicides at Bexar County jail, of the great state of Texas...
ReplyDeleteWhat might be strange about suicides at a county jail you ask? (Is a suicide, meaning one, not suspicious enough?)
What's suspicious about these cases is that there have been multiple arrests resulting in suicides at this very county jail. All in a matter of one month. Yeah.... that time span should catch the attention and heal even the most lethargic critics. Not one suicide, not two suicides, not three suicides, but four suicides within a month! Approximately a jail cell suicide every week, on a county jail. All occuring in the summer of 2016. There were also three total other suicides that took place in this county jail in 2015.
Now we don't have any evidence to assume the reasoning to why this is happening, and it would be irresponsible to begin pointing to an answer, without a proper investigation. I agree with Jose that there is something abnormal that calls for further investigation on how the county jail is handling their inmates or even to the extent of who is supervising them.
The most recent of the cases is of a 50 year old man who was there to serve out his sentence on DWI and parole violations. The man was later found unresponsive in his cell Sunday afternoon, December 5, 2016. This is the 5th suicide of this year.