More than 4200 people in Texas have died in custody in the past decade,and Waller County, where Bland died, and has repeatedly been found non-compliant with state regulations that could have prevented her deathIf it makes no logical sense that a young and seemingly delighted woman would kill herself days after being offered a new job,then the death of Sandra Bland is an anomaly on a statistical level as well.
The official, hotly disputed account is that the 28-year-passe hanged herself in her cell on 13 July. whether that is steady she is the first African American woman to kill herself in a Texas county jail since the state’s standards agency started keeping death records.
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Source: theguardian.com