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Sandra Annette Bland (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015) was from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and was one of five sisters.She attended Willowbrook High School in Villa Park, Illinois and graduated in 2005, then Prairie View A&M University outside Hempstead in Waller County, Texas, where she was a member of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
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.
The Huffington Post gathered names, causes of death, dates of arrest and death, and other data for more than 800 people who died in jails and police lockups in the year following Sandra Bland’s death on July 13, 2015.
In July 2015, Sandra Bland, a woman who had been taken into police custody after a traffic violation, was found hanged three days later in her jail cell. [5] Following Bland's death, the AAPF, the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School, and Andrea Ritchie issued an updated version of the original report. [4]
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 ...
Texas’ Largest Jail Hasn’t Learned Much From Sandra Bland’s Death The Huffington Post Read article >> This Stroke Victim Was Jailed For Smoking Pot And Couldn’t Afford $100 Bail. He Died In Custody. The Huffington Post Read article >> Sandra Bland’s Family Got A Settlement, But The Fight Isn’t Over The Huffington Post Read article >>
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. Sandra Bland was just one of thousands who die in custody Skip ...
The family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit against a Texas trooper, a sheriff?s office and jailers, accusing them of being responsible for her death. Texas county says woman killed herself when no ...