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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 ...
Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer, was sentenced in a Tarrant County court to 11 years, 10 months in prison, a court clerk said. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was shot dead by Dean, who ...
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]
Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row. Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [3] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison. [4]
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 ...
Texas' highest criminal court on April 25, 2022, delayed the execution of Lucio, the only Latina on the state's death row, who was set to die April 27, 2022. [71] Taylor Rene Parker Parker was convicted for the October 2020 slaying of her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage Hancock.
Would you rather your community build a library or a jail? Nearly 20 years ago, a group of Black women asked that same question in Forest Hill, Texas
Joan Little (pronounced "Jo Ann") (born 1953) is an African-American woman who was charged with the 1974 murder of Clarence Alligood, a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina, who attempted to rape Little before she could escape.