Since Jacoby Pillow’s death last month, at least three others have died at Harris County Jail. And the year before, the jail hit a record high of 27 in-custody deaths.
that staff had used excessive force and failed to document it or intervene, on top of making false claims to investigators. As a result, the sheriff’s office suspended six detention officers and fired 11 others.
Pillow was found dead the following morning, though the sheriff’s office said he had been examined by medical personnel before being returned to his cell.separate investigations“The facts of this case are extremely alarming, and they point to a pattern and culture of inmate abuse that we have seen before in Harris County facilities,” Ben Crump, an attorney representing Pillow’s family,
last month. “There is no legitimate excuse for this young man to have lost his life for an arrest on a misdemeanor charge right as he was about to get out on bail.”Since Pillow’s death last month, at least
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