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Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Officials found her death to be a suicide .
Many people believe Sandra Bland did not take her own life. But the circumstances of her death fit a recognizable pattern. In a significant number of the cases we found, people killed themselves within just a few days, even when they had been arrested on minor charges that were extremely unlikely to result in prison time.
Encinia, who arrested 28-year-old Sandra Bland in July, was indicted by the grand jury in Waller County, outside of Houston, in January. Texas trooper fired for traffic stop of woman who later ...
One Year After Sandra Bland’s Death, #SayHerName Is As Important As Ever The Huffington Post Read article >> A former corrections officer talks about her frustration with the lack of mental health care in jails. The Huffington Post Read article >> Linda Spies’ son Jake was supposed to be on suicide watch, but still ended up dead.
About 4,000 people die each year while in a county jail or a state prison, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
One Year After Sandra Bland’s Death, #SayHerName Is As Important As Ever The Huffington Post Read article >> A former corrections officer talks about her frustration with the lack of mental health care in jails. The Huffington Post Read article >> Linda Spies’ son Jake was supposed to be on suicide watch, but still ended up dead.
The dashboard video camera of a traffic stop in Texas of a black woman later found hanging dead in her jail cell was not edited but efforts are being made to repost it, Texas officials said on ...
We learn quite a bit about Bland's background in this article, most not in Section 1.1 Background. -- M.boli 18:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC) I personally react to Bland's background information in the opposite way. Bland was a BLM activist with a history of interactions with traffic cops which didn't result in being yanked out of the car. Something ...