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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.
This April, Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, visited Washington, D.C., to deliver a speech at the Library of Congress. “By a show of hands,” she asked the audience, “can any of you tell me the other six women who died in jail in July 2015 along with Sandra Bland?” Nobody could. Those women are recorded here, along with hundreds of others.
Here are the 815 people (and counting) who have lost their lives in jail in the year after Sandra Bland died. ... State: Missouri; Date arrested or booked: 4/29/2016;
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 ...
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 ...
An Inmate Died Of Thirst In A Jail Run By A Loudly Pro-Trump Sheriff The Huffington Post Read article >> 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 >>
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 ...
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]