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Sandra Bland

“Ultimately, Bland’s decision to commit suicide was hers alone, after she denied any suicidal intentions to jail personnel, and after her friends and family refused to bail her out of jail”
Commission is considering having inmates keep track of each other to ensure prisoner safety
Investigation into her arrest following a traffic stop and her death in a jail cell three days later should be finished soon, said a state official
Texas has seen an average of 25 suicides in county jails each year since 2012
The heavily armed demonstrators from the New Black Panther Party were greeted by a wall of mounted sheriff’s deputies from Harris County
It is the first escalation of protests at the jail that have persisted for nearly a month
The family believes that more information about the incident would be forthcoming if the DOJ was involved in the investigation
Officials say Waller County jailers didn’t get additional mental health training they were supposed to receive
Texas authorities on Tuesday released several hours of video footage of Sandra Bland during her three days in jail to address rumors that she was dead before arriving there
Investigators say no injuries consistent with a violent homicide were found during an autopsy of a woman who was found dead in a Texas jail
28-year-old Sandra Bland had told a jailer July 10 about a previous suicide attempt
Acknowledged violating state rules on guard training and the monitoring of inmates
“It is very much too early to make any kind of determination that this was a suicide or a murder because the investigations are not complete”
Family of Sandra Bland continue to refute authorities’ announcement that Bland took her own life while incarcerated at the Waller County Jail
Those who knew her said she would not have killed herself inside a Texas jail cell
A black woman who authorities say hanged herself in a Texas jail had posted an online video earlier this year saying she was suffering from “a little bit of depression”