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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. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
Andre Segura, legal director for the ACLU of Texas, was quoted in a press release, "The same result must apply to Crystal—a woman who was not aware she was ineligible to vote and had no reason to risk her liberty." On March 31, 2021, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to consider Crystal Mason's appeal. [3]
The William P. Hobby Unit (HB) is a prison for women in unincorporated Falls County, Texas, United States. Named after William P. Hobby, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, it is a part of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). It is located on Texas Farm to Market Road 712, off Texas Business Highway 6 and 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of ...
Rosing agreed to make a guilty plea after sitting for a mediation session with the woman she attacked College student who used the n-word 200 times in drunken attack on Black classmate faces jail ...
A college student who went on a drunken tirade using the n-word 200 times will now head to jail for a year.. Sophia Rosing, a former student at the University of Kentucky, became infamous in 2022 ...
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice bought the land and buildings. The facility reopened as a women's prison. [6] The then named Mountain View Unit opened in July 1975. [7] In 2024, the prison was renamed the Patrick O'Daniel Unit following a unanimous vote from the Texas Board of Criminal Justice the previous December. [8]
Jail ignored woman’s illness, causing her ‘avoidable’ death, lawyer says. ... April 17, 2024 at 10:27 AM. Getty Images/iStockphoto. ... The Today Show. 40 New Year's Eve drinks worthy of ...
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]