'I just want them to be held liable': Texas case opens door to sue over police misconduct
Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project, and Tony Plohetski
Trent Taylor was naked in front of a Texas prison cell, hands shackled behind his back, when the stench hit him.
“The officer that was standing next to me, he just kind of cringed,” Taylor recalls. It wasn’t until Taylor was inside the cell, the solid door locked behind him, that he got a good look.
There were human feces everywhere, he said: smeared on the window, the ceiling, packed inside the water faucet. A smiley face and a swastika were painted in feces on the wall. A layer caked on the floor made a “dry crunch” under his feet.